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In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author covers: - Getting permits and licenses - How to finance a business - Creating and using a business plan - Choosing and protecting a business name - Deciding whether to incorporate - Establishing a complete bookkeeping system - Hiring employees - Federal, state, and local taxes - Buying a business or franchise - Dealing with—and avoiding—the IRS - Doing business on the Internet - Handling insurance, contracts, pricing, trademarks, and patents In this new edition, the book will feature a section on surviving the Global Information Grid or GIG economy. The on-demand economy, also known as the sharing economy or the gig economy, is a new and greatly expanding business model that is basically nothing more than a mobile app that connects people who need some type of service—a ride, a delivery, a plumber, a house cleaner—with individuals who provide that service. There are hundreds of thousands of newly self-employed individuals. Uber alone claims that they have 160,000 workers just in California. The great majority of these on demand workers have zero experience or knowledge about self-employment. This book will give on-demand workers everything they need to know about being self-employed. Bernard B. Kamoroff is a C.P.A. with over thirty years of experience specializing in small business. 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