Monday, August 17, 2009

Chamber, City and Community Partners Offer Free Tax, Recor-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 denise.porter-ross@cityoffortwayne.org.

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