A Look Ahead: Your 2024 Taxes

With the end of the year fast approaching, it’s a good idea to look ahead and think about when your tax returns will be due the following year. With the holiday season and the start of the new year, it can be very easy to lose track of time and have the tax deadlines come […]

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Setting Goals That Stick

As practice owners and managers, you face a million demands, making goal setting for 2025 both essential and challenging. Having grown a small practice from one DVM to a 12-DVM team, I learned that setting and achieving significant goals requires a careful balance of ambition and practicality. Here are a few tips to help you […]

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Tax Outlook after the 2024 Presidential Election

On November 5, 2024, the United States elected Donald Trump to lead our country for the next four years. With the Republican party regaining control of the White House, they will look to extend the expiring tax reforms they implemented under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Here is an overview of some […]

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Veterinary Retirement Planning: Secured Future for You and Your Family

As a veterinarian, your main priority is to care for other people’s loved ones and enhance their future quality of life. It’s rewarding to know your work helps others in their time of need, but It’s also essential to take a step back and invest into your own future and quality of life. Retirement planning […]

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The Peak Approach: Expenses Paid Personally for a Start-up/Acquisition

Opening a veterinary practice is a very exciting time for new owners. While galvanizing, the process requires veterinarians to incur copious amounts of expenses before opening the practice doors. This means that you could be personally liable for these expenditures if business bank accounts or loans are not already secured. Thankfully, practice owners can deduct […]

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Tips On Spotting Errors In Your Internal Financial Statements 

Having worked closely with hundreds of veterinarian clients and business owners here at Granite Peak Associates, we make a point to provide high quality tailored services to allow you to focus more on the animals, and less on the accounting. With this mission in mind, it is important to highlight weekly business transaction review, along […]

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Individuals get Covid-19 income tax relief

Taxpayers now have more time to file their tax returns and pay any tax owed because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Treasury Department and IRS announced that the federal income tax filing due date is automatically extended from April 15, 2020, to July 15, 2020. Taxpayers can also defer making federal income tax payments, […]

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Mark Your Calendars! Time to Get Ready for Your Small Business 1099-Misc Reporting

A month after the new year begins, your business may be required to comply with rules to report amounts paid to independent contractors, vendors and others. You may have to send 1099-MISC forms to those whom you pay nonemployee compensation, as well as file copies with the IRS. This task can be time consuming and […]

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Deducting a Vehicle Through Your Business

If you own a small business, you may be able to deduct expenses related to your vehicle. Business use of vehicles can lower your taxable income and save some extra tax dollars. The general rule is you can either deduct mileage or actual costs. This requires a slight calculation to see which is more beneficial […]

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Small Business Reminder – Important Upcoming Dates for Q3 2019

Here are some of the key tax-related deadlines affecting businesses and other employers during the third quarter of 2019. Keep in mind that this list isn’t all-inclusive, so there may be additional deadlines that apply to you. July 31 Report income tax withholding and FICA taxes for the second quarter of 2019 (Form 941) and […]

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