Presented by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Ladder Up, this workshop will answer important tax questions for your business including: Are you required to file a tax return? Is your worker an independent contractor or an employee? What will the IRS request during an audit? Are you required to make estimated tax payments? What resources does the IRS have for small business owners?

Ladder Up is a nonprofit organization that provides free financial services to Chicago residents in underserved communities, with the goal of helping them secure unclaimed tax credits achieve financial stability . By engaging more than 1,000 volunteers, many recruited from the Chicago area's premier companies and universities, Ladder Up has returned, in total, over $562 million in economic benefits to more than 317,000 hardworking people across the Chicago area, since its beginning in 1994.

The Internal Revenue Service is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The government agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who is appointed to a five-year term by the President of the United States. The IRS provides a wide range of programs and services to assist taxpayers, individuals, businesses and nonprofits, with their tax return preparations.

What You Need to Know About Your Business & Taxes is sponsored by the City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP).  The department licenses, educates, regulates and empowers Chicago businesses to grow and succeed as well as, receives and processes consumer complaints.

For registration information call 312/744-2086 and tell them you saw the listing on the Minority Entrepreneur News Site.

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