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NEW YORK (AP) - With less than a month before the April 15 deadline for filing tax returns, many small business owners are still trying to find ways to ease their tax burden. But this isn't the time to be making impulsive decisions.
For example, you can't decide now that you want to change your accounting method for 2004. And you can't choose whether your workers were independent contractors or employees. And you can't come up with expenses by writing checks now.
"Whatever activity ended on Dec. 31 really ended on the 31st," said Gregg Wind, a certified public accountant with Wind Bremer Hockenberg LLP in Los Angeles.
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