City, small-business advocates offer free tax, record-keeping business workshop
The City of Fort Wayne in cooperation with the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, Women's Enterprise ' A Program of the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, Small Business Administration, SCORE, Community Development Corp. and the Indiana Small Business Development Center will offer a free forum on small-business taxes and recordkeeping Aug. 20.
The workshop, which will be 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Omni Room on the second floor of the City-County Building, will cover the following topics:
'¢ Business legal structure
'¢ Financial statements
'¢ Recordkeeping for taxes
The topics are designed for people who are currently in business or considering starting a business. The workshop's presenters are attorney Joshua Burkhardt of Beer Mallers Backs & Salin, LLP; and SCORE's Jack Dever and Al Kruetzman.
The remaining workshops planned for 2009 are:
'¢ New business start-up in a recession, Sept. 17
'¢ Procurement, Oct. 15
'¢ Patents, trademarks and copyright, Nov. 19
All workshops will be 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Omni Room of the City-County Building. For more information, contact Denise Porter-Ross at 427-2603 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..