{"id":26,"date":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/2026\/08\/21\/bookkeeping-habits-tax-season\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:00:00","slug":"bookkeeping-habits-tax-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/bookkeeping-habits-tax-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven bookkeeping habits that make tax season painless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clean books in April are the result of small habits the rest of the year. These are the seven we ask every client to keep.<\/p>\n

1. Keep business and personal money apart<\/h2>\n

One business checking account and one business card. Mixing them is the single biggest source of clean-up work we see.<\/p>\n

2. Categorize weekly, not yearly<\/h2>\n

Fifteen minutes on a Friday beats fifteen hours in March. Unclear transactions are easier to remember while they\u2019re fresh.<\/p>\n

3. Capture receipts as you go<\/h2>\n

Snap a photo the moment you pay. Most accounting tools attach it to the transaction automatically.<\/p>\n

4. Reconcile every account monthly<\/h2>\n

Matching your books to bank and card statements catches duplicates, missing income and fees before they pile up.<\/p>\n

5\u20137. Review, plan and set aside<\/h2>\n
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  1. Read your P&L every month, even briefly.<\/li>\n
  2. Track who owes you money and follow up on time.<\/li>\n
  3. Move a fixed share of every payment into a tax savings account.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Small weekly routines that keep your books clean all year, so April is a formality instead of a scramble. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookkeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}