. . . plan well and follow your plan . . .

To start a business, you need a business plan. A resource for the essential elements of a business plan can be found online at the United States Small Business Administration. Also, you might want to check for business planning ideas from writers' sites online .


A great business plan and the IRC (Internal Revenue Code) have something in common. Like a great classic, every time you reread it you find something new. This is not because, like a great classic, your business plan is timeless, but because it’s dynamic. It’s a work in process, a series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result. Plan on it.

Just remember, Congress plans. It plans on some people and businesses paying taxes—but not everybody. It takes intricate legislative planning to allow certain contributing constituents of political parties to avoid taxation, but not others. Often when the public discovers hidden taxes, Congress’s solution is not necessarily to do away with the concealed taxes, but to hide them better. In similar fashion, you have to plan well and follow your plan to show that you are in business to make money, whether or not you have made money yet or not.