Make your tax dollars work for you

Home based business owners, in my experience, love to know about a bargain

for goods or services they need. One place you can get a bargain - in fact get

help for free - is from government websites.

The old joke is that one of the great lies is “I’m from the government.

I’m here to help you.” but in fact, governments - in the developed world

at least - often provide quite extensive resources for business and these are

not always used by businesses.

In the USA,

the Small Business

Administration has extensive resources online for small business and some

information specifically useful for home based business. In Australia,

Federal and State governments have a lot of “how to” and

other helpful advice and tools online - go through the Business Entry Point

and be prepared to do some patient searching.

One thing I’ve found about government sites is that they are usually a royal

pain to search!

State and provincial governments also often have really good resources - see

for example Canada’s

Ontario government site .