[ale] Legal Requirements for small business consulting

[Greg]

I have paid neither a bean counter or an attorney, but I wasn't getting into
a lot of $$ from it. If you are under $50K/yr you can just put it on your
taxes and go from there. That is what I was advised by an accountant and a
small business owner (who has both an attorney and an accountant). This was
supplanted by several guys/gals at work (I work for a financial services
company so I am surrounded by CPA types).

Any more or if you are doing anything where you can expect to be sued, get
something to keep you house i.e. an LLC or such.  I do only GPL consulting -
mainly free-er(lots of friends and family rates) and with only my word as a
warranty.  2 things I would advise are to 1) get some $$ up front and 2) get
familar with small claims court in GA.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:05 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Legal Requirements for small business consulting
>
>
> BruceG wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Got (another) call today about a dead PC, could I come and fix it.
> > It's a Windows 98 PC with out of date anti-virus software, updates
> > not done often, and will only boot from the rescue floppy. Basically
> > hosed. Anyway, I stepped them through getting the PC back upand
> > running, then updating antivir and scanning it. Didn't find anything.
> >
> >
> > Anyway - looks like the office needs PC maintenance. My son could do
> > it, but he should get cash for doing so. The volunteer stuff is
> > getting old. Where do I look for legal requiments for setting up a
> > small consulting company. Basically, my son would offer a maintenance
> > service in keeping the PCs at the office current on MS Security
> > fixes, virus updates and firewall updates. He'd also offer to do
> > backups on the payroll PC and the records PC.
>
> Go to http://www.nolo.com there's a lot of good stuff out there on
> starting a business.  I've done a lot of research on this.  To make sure
> you're doing it right, you'll need to see a cpa, lawyer or both.  I've
> done both.
>
> nolo also publishes a series of books on starting a business.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net
>
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