“Year-Round Tax Help”

Hot off the Internal Revenue Service press: "Small Business Resource Guide — CD2000," a one-stop source of easy-to-access federal tax and regulatory information. The CD contains business tax forms, instructions, IRS publications, and information on how to prepare a business plan and find financing. The CD also offers online updates, links to useful Web sites and an e-mail newsletter. Call (800) 829-3676, and ask for IRS Publication 3207.

Writer: Kimberly Stanséll is a Los Angeles-based businesswoman and author of "Bootstrapper’s Success Secrets: 151 Tactics for Building Your Business on a Shoestring Budget," (Career Press).