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Forbes & Company Forbes & Company offers strategic tax planning with exceptional accounting and advisory services for businesses and individuals.

Through our commitment to accuracy and integrity, we provide the guidance you need to achieve long-term financial success. Forbes & Company is a full-service certified public accounting and consulting firm serving the Alpharetta/Atlanta, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina areas. Our firm takes pride in giving businesses and individuals efficient and creative tax solutions for over 20 years.

A law firm and an architecture firm can earn the same profit and still get very different tax breaks. The QBI deduction ...
10/07/2026

A law firm and an architecture firm can earn the same profit and still get very different tax breaks. The QBI deduction lets pass-through owners deduct up to 20% of qualified business income, but law and consulting firms are specified service businesses (SSTBs), so high-earning owners lose it entirely.

Architecture and engineering are expressly excluded from that list, which means owners keep the deduction at higher incomes, subject to wage and property limits. Most marketing agencies qualify too, unless the work is really consulting.

If your firm is eligible, now's the time to model owner salaries and W-2 wages to find the sweet spot, since payroll can still be adjusted before December 31.
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Your rental losses could be offsetting your other income, but only if your hour log holds up. Real estate professional s...
10/05/2026

Your rental losses could be offsetting your other income, but only if your hour log holds up. Real estate professional status (REPS) lets rental losses offset wages and business income instead of sitting trapped as passive losses.

To qualify, you need more than 750 hours in real estate businesses and more than half of your total working time spent there, plus material participation in your rentals. The IRS expects your log to be kept as you go, so take time before year-end to match it against your calendar, emails and mileage.

If you own several rentals, determine whether an election to group them as one activity makes sense, since it lets your combined hours count together.
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That PR package on your doorstep? The IRS may see it as a paycheck.When a brand sends you products, hotel stays, meals o...
10/02/2026

That PR package on your doorstep? The IRS may see it as a paycheck.

When a brand sends you products, hotel stays, meals or trips in exchange for content, that's generally taxable income at its fair market value, even though no cash changed hands.

It's one of the most common blind spots we see with creators, and it gets trickier now that many of you won't receive a 1099 at all. The 1099-K threshold is back to $20,000 and 200 transactions, and starting in 2026, brands only have to send a 1099-NEC once they've paid you $2,000 or more. The income is still taxable whether or not a form shows up, so your own records need to be the source of truth.

Here's a simple fix you can start today. Build an in-kind income log with the date, the brand, what you received, its fair market value and a link to the content you created in return. It's much easier to do now than in April. https://bit.ly/4iUr96E

One of the most underrated perks of brokerage consolidation? Referral networks. When large brokerages combine, their age...
09/30/2026

One of the most underrated perks of brokerage consolidation? Referral networks. When large brokerages combine, their agent networks combine too, opening the door to relocation business and referrals from agents across the country and around the world.

As buyers and sellers relocate more often for work, retirement, and lifestyle changes, being plugged into a wider network means capturing that business instead of losing it to someone else.

Growing income from new markets and referral sources brings its own financial questions. We help real estate professionals make sense of it all, so opportunity doesn't come with a headache attached. https://bit.ly/4cA0esN

A single sponsored post gives a brand a brief spike in attention. A longer partnership, where a creator keeps showing up...
09/28/2026

A single sponsored post gives a brand a brief spike in attention. A longer partnership, where a creator keeps showing up with the same product over weeks or months, compounds the trust that's already been built and drives the kind of repeat buying behavior brands actually want.

That same principle applies to your own business as a creator. Recurring brand ambassador income, rather than one-off deals, is becoming the norm, and it's exactly the kind of steady, evolving revenue that deserves a real financial strategy behind it.

If your influencer income is starting to look less like occasional checks and more like a business, we'd love to help you plan for what's next. https://bit.ly/4x5UluT

Starting a business used to require hiring a small team just to handle the basics. Now, a solo founder can lean on AI to...
09/23/2026

Starting a business used to require hiring a small team just to handle the basics. Now, a solo founder can lean on AI tools to write product descriptions, manage customer service, run social media, and even handle basic bookkeeping. Startup costs that once ran into the tens of thousands of dollars have come down considerably, and roughly half of small business owners say AI tools sparked ideas they wouldn't have pursued otherwise.

A leaner startup still needs a solid financial foundation behind it, though, especially once revenue starts coming in and the stakes of getting your entity structure and accounting systems right go up.

We help founders build that foundation early, so growth never outpaces good financial footing. https://bit.ly/4qZIIUW

Here's the thing about smaller audiences: they're actually easier to build real relationships with. Micro-influencers ha...
09/21/2026

Here's the thing about smaller audiences: they're actually easier to build real relationships with. Micro-influencers have the time to read comments, respond to questions, and have genuine back-and-forth conversations with their followers, something a creator with a million-person audience simply can't do at the same scale.

Researchers have called this the physics of trust. A creator who knows their community by comment thread carries more influence than someone broadcasting to strangers who barely notice they exist. That trust is exactly what turns a casual follower into a loyal customer.

As your influence and income grow from that trust, so does the importance of tracking it accurately. We help creators keep their finances as organized as their content calendar.
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Bigger brokerages bring bigger buying power, and that shows up in two places agents feel every day: technology and cost....
09/18/2026

Bigger brokerages bring bigger buying power, and that shows up in two places agents feel every day: technology and cost.

Proprietary platforms once reserved for industry powerhouses are becoming standard, offering smarter lead generation, AI-assisted client communication, and streamlined transaction management all in one place. At the same time, scale means negotiated rates on the marketing and service costs that quietly eat into commission.

More efficiency and lower overhead add up to more of your income staying right where it belongs, in your pocket. When commissions grow, so does the value of having a tax strategy built around your specific business.
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Forty-three percent of Gen Z adults plan to start a business, the highest entrepreneurial intent of any generation, and ...
09/16/2026

Forty-three percent of Gen Z adults plan to start a business, the highest entrepreneurial intent of any generation, and over half already have some kind of side hustle running. What's especially encouraging is how accessible entrepreneurship has become across the board, reaching far beyond Silicon Valley and into communities that have never had an easy on-ramp to business ownership before.

Whether your venture is a side hustle you're hoping to grow or a full-time leap you're taking today, the earliest financial decisions you make matter more than most people realize.

We love working with founders at the very start of that journey, helping turn a great idea into a business built to last.
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