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# IRS offers free assistance for small business owners
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/irs-offers-free-assistance-for-small-business-owners/
- Published: 2005-04-28T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:49:52.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

In recognition of National Small Business Week, the Internal Revenue Service has announced an abundance of free resources available to assist the nation’s 45 million small business and self-employed taxpayers with their tax responsibilities. And, they are all just a mouse-click away.

The small business section of the agency’s Web site at IRS.gov provides a one-stop resource for information on starting and operating a business. On this site, taxpayers can learn about employment tax requirements, make tax payments, find out how to set up and distribute retirement plans, and order free tax products like a tax calendar or retirement plan resource guide.

“Running a business is a big responsibility and the IRS wants to help ease the process for this dynamic group of taxpayers,” said Victor Omelczenko, IRS spokesperson in Los Angeles. “In an effort to save businesses money and reduce their paperwork burden, over the last year, the IRS has implemented a number of initiatives to simplify tax forms.”

For more information about the resources and services the IRS has for small business and self-employed taxpayers visit IRS.gov.

Links: Small business and self-employed one-stop resource, http://www.irs.gov/small-biz Subscribe to the small business and self-employed division’s free electronic mail service for small business owners, http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=98724,00.html

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 28, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042805.pdf?ref=smdp.com)