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The timely layer — dated, verified, long-tail.

Two registers run this site's teaching. The guides are the evergreen methodology — rare, flagship, maintained for years. The blog is everything timely: dated pieces on what changed, what's confusing this quarter, and the narrow questions a flagship guide shouldn't chase — each one verified at publication, stamped with its dates, and funneling to the service that does the work.

A handful of posts a month, proposed from real search data and approved before writing — a verified content engine, deliberately not a volume engine.

Published + updated dates, always Verified at build, restamped on review

How the blog works

Guides teach method

Evergreen, rare, flagship — the nineteen-guide silo is closed and maintained, not extended.

The blog tracks time

Releases, changes, seasonal questions, narrow cases — dated on publication, restamped when reality moves.

Same honesty bar

Real sources, published ranges only, honest sections — a post either verifies or doesn't publish.

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The dated record.

Bookkeeping · 2026-07-03

The 1099-K threshold is back to $20,000. Your books just inherited the form's job.

The 1099-K threshold is $20,000/200 again per the IRS. Fewer forms arrive — but your processor totals still have to tie to your books. The method.

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Industries · 2026-07-03

"No tax on tips" arrives on the W-2 in 2026. What lands on your restaurant is records.

The tips deduction is the employee's and the CPA's lane. What lands on the restaurant is records: Box 14b, code TP, and a POS that splits tips right.

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Industries · 2026-07-03

The state already knows what your bar bought. Your records decide what that proves.

Your distributors report every case to the state. How the Comptroller's depletion analysis estimates a bar's sales — and the records that answer it.

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QuickBooks · 2026-07-03

Desktop 2023 support just ended. Here's what actually stops — and what doesn't.

Intuit ended QuickBooks Desktop 2023 support on May 31, 2026. What actually stops, what keeps working, and the 60-day window migrations trip on.

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QuickBooks · 2026-07-03

QuickBooks Online costs more again. The fix isn't a coupon — it's the plan-fit read.

QBO prices rose again in 2026 — every tier, with renewals following in August. The honest plan-fit read: what your books actually need, tier by tier.

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Texas · 2026-07-03

Texas raised the franchise no-tax-due line to $2.65M — and half the internet hasn't noticed.

For 2026 Texas franchise reports the no-tax-due threshold is $2.65M and the No-Tax-Due Report is discontinued — what your ledger must show, books-side.

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Blog FAQ · Updated July 2026

How this blog is run.

Register, on purpose. The guides are the evergreen methodology — rare, flagship pieces that teach a complete method and get maintained for years; there are nineteen, and the silo is deliberately closed. The blog is the timely layer: dated, topical, long-tail pieces that answer this month's specific questions and say plainly when they were written and last updated. A guide is where we'd send you to learn reconciliation; a blog post is where we'd cover what changed in this year's QuickBooks release. When a post's topic matures into method, the guide absorbs it and the post points there.
A handful a month, proposed from real search data and approved before anything gets written — never content-mill volume, because every post is held to the same verification bar as the rest of the site: real sources at build time, published ranges only, honest sections included. Each post is written by a named operator on the file-work side of the practice, and David reviews the pieces that carry his name — the byline tells you which is which, plainly.
Because a dated post that's quietly wrong is worse than no post. Timely content ages — rates change, software menus move, thresholds get revised — so every post carries its publish date and its last real update visibly, and the stock gets audited on a schedule: pieces that decayed get updated and restamped, and pieces a guide has superseded get folded into it rather than left to mislead. The dates are the honesty mechanism, not decoration.

The evergreen method behind every timely piece lives in the guides — nineteen flagship walkthroughs, maintained for years.

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