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April 2026 · 8 min read

For 30 years, your trust document lived in a drawer. Your CPA had a copy. Your attorney had a copy. Your spouse maybe knew where the original was. Now drag a Trust PDF into HaraPro and our AI extracts the grantor, trustees, beneficiaries, HEMS standards, and tax elections in 30 seconds, and links it to the businesses and accounts it governs. Here's the full story behind why we built it.

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HaraPro vs QuickBooks for LLC Owners

7 min read · September 2026

QuickBooks is a subscription per company with no intercompany feature online. HaraPro keeps every entity in one login with the loans between them linked.

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Bookkeeping for Multiple LLCs: Separate Books, One System

12 min read · September 2026

Separate books for several LLCs without a QuickBooks file per company: accounts, intercompany loans, draws, the CPA handoff, and what it costs.

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How to Record a Loan Between Two LLCs You Own

9 min read · September 2026

Promissory note, AFR interest, the entries on both sides, and how to keep the two LLCs’ books in agreement. A worked schedule for a $25,000 intercompany loan.

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S-Corp Salary vs Distribution: How Much to Pay Yourself

9 min read · September 2026

How to set a reasonable S-Corp salary, what the payroll tax saving really is at $150K, $250K and $400K, and how to document the number so it survives an audit.

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QuickBooks for Multiple Businesses: Four Options Compared

7 min read · September 2026

One subscription per company, classes in one file, Desktop Enterprise, or a multi-entity tool: costs at three, five and eight businesses, and the deciding test.

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How to Track Net Worth When You Own a Business

7 min read · September 2026

What counts, how to value the business without an appraisal, why the business account is not your cash, and a worked example for a consultant with an LLC.

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HaraPro vs Monarch Money for Business Owners

6 min read · September 2026

Monarch is a good household budgeting app. Add an LLC or two and the business account, the draws and the loans between entities break it. Side by side.

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Car Loan Interest Deduction for Turo Hosts (2025 to 2028)

8 min read · September 2026

The $10,000 car loan interest deduction needs personal use over 50% and a new US-assembled car. What that means for Turo cars, and what to deduct instead.

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Quarterly Estimated Tax for Owners of Multiple LLCs

7 min read · September 2026

One estimated payment from several LLCs with different tax treatments: safe harbors, S-Corp withholding, and how to avoid the April surprise.

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Owner Draw vs Salary vs Distribution, Explained

7 min read · September 2026

Three ways to pay yourself, decided by how the business is taxed: payroll tax, basis, your personal return, and how to label the transfer correctly.

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Holding Company for Multiple LLCs: When It Is Worth It

8 min read · September 2026

What a holding company actually protects, what it does not, the returns and intercompany entries it adds, and the point at which it pays for itself.

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Late S-Corp Election: Form 2553 After the Deadline

6 min read · September 2026

The real deadline for an LLC formed this year, relief under Rev. Proc. 2013-30, filling in Form 2553, the payroll problem for a year underway.

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S-Corp Bookkeeping Requirements: What Changes After You Elect

6 min read · September 2026

What an S-Corp must keep that an LLC did not: payroll records, reasonable comp support, shareholder basis, a real balance sheet, accountable plan, 1120-S.

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S-Corp Accountable Plan: Reimburse Yourself the Right Way

6 min read · September 2026

Home office, phone, mileage, laptop: how an accountable plan turns personal payments into deductible reimbursements, what it must say, how to document it.

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S-Corp Shareholder Basis: How to Track It

6 min read · September 2026

Stock basis, debt basis, the ordering rules, Form 7203, and how a distribution in a slow year turns into a capital gain when nobody kept the schedule.

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Solo 401(k) vs SEP IRA for an S-Corp Owner

6 min read · September 2026

Both plans compute from W-2 salary in an S-Corp. The numbers at $60K, $110K and $200K of salary, the employee rule, Roth and mega-backdoor, the paperwork.

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Defined Benefit Plan for an S-Corp Owner

7 min read · September 2026

How a cash balance plan lets an S-Corp owner in her fifties deduct $100,000 to $250,000 a year, why salary sets the number, and the commitment it carries.

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Mortgage vs Business Loan Interest: Which Is Deductible

7 min read · September 2026

Five kinds of interest, five treatments: the itemizing threshold, business interest above the line, tracing, the HELOC used for the business, rentals.

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HaraPro vs Copilot Money for Business Owners

6 min read · September 2026

Copilot is the best-looking personal finance app on the iPhone. Add an LLC and it has a business account in a personal budget. Prices, platforms, features.

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HaraPro vs Kubera for Families With Multiple Entities

7 min read · September 2026

Kubera tracks balances across every asset type, with ownership tags on Black. HaraPro keeps each entity’s books and consolidates them. Which one for a family.

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Net Worth Across Trusts, LLCs and Personal Accounts

9 min read · September 2026

Look-through, eliminations, where trusts sit, valuation cadence and the liquid share: how a family with several entities gets one honest number.

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Estate Plan Checklist for Business Owners

6 min read · September 2026

Succession authority, transfer clauses, S-Corp eligibility of the trust, intercompany loans, key-person cash and where everything is: the owner’s checklist.

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Funding a Revocable Trust With LLC Interests

6 min read · September 2026

How to assign LLC membership interests to a living trust: the assignment, the operating agreement, the S-Corp trap, the lender clause, what to update after.

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Loans Between a Trust and an LLC: How to Document Them

6 min read · September 2026

Trust lends to LLC or the reverse: the fiduciary layer, the note, AFR interest, the grantor trust question, entries on both sides.

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Estate Planning for Clients With Multiple LLCs

9 min read · September 2026

For estate attorneys: assigning LLC interests to a trust, S-Corp eligibility traps, intercompany loans as estate assets, and why plans drift.

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Intercompany Reconciliation for CPAs: LLCs That Agree

9 min read · September 2026

Why intercompany balances drift between a client’s LLCs, the matrix that finds the difference, and how to stop rebuilding it every February.

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Tax Planning for Clients With Multiple Entities

7 min read · September 2026

For tax planners: where multi-entity plans go wrong, the numbers that move between plan and return, and how to plan on live books, not last year’s 1040.

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Why Our CPA Partner Program Has No Revenue Share

5 min read · September 2026

Flat fee per client, no cut of the firm’s billing, no referral trail: how the Partner Program is priced and why revenue share aims software at the wrong thing.

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Family Balance Sheet Across Multiple Entities: Template

6 min read · September 2026

For advisors: one column per entity, eliminations, where trusts sit, valuation cadence and the liquid share.

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HaraPro vs Asset-Map for Advisors

6 min read · September 2026

Asset-Map draws the household for the meeting. For clients with several entities the numbers in the boxes are last review’s. How HaraPro keeps them live.

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HaraPro vs Corvee (Instead) and Holistiplan

7 min read · September 2026

Corvee, now Instead, and Holistiplan build the plan from the return. HaraPro keeps the client’s entities.

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Multi-Business Bookkeeping: The System That Replaces Your Spreadsheets

6 min read · April 2026

Running 3–8 businesses? Here's the framework that keeps your books clean across every LLC and S-Corp, without Excel.

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S-Corp vs LLC: The Real Math Behind Choosing Your Business Type

7 min read · April 2026

At $200K net income, the wrong structure can cost you $14,800/year in unnecessary taxes. The full breakdown with real numbers.

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Section 179 vs Bonus Depreciation: Which One Should You Use?

6 min read · April 2026

Both let you deduct the full cost of business assets, but they work very differently. Here's how to choose.

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The $18,000 Vehicle Depreciation Mistake Most Business Owners Make

5 min read · April 2026

Section 280F caps first-year depreciation on luxury autos, but one weight threshold changes everything.

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5 Tax Deductions Every Turo Host Misses

5 min read · April 2026

Platform fees, auto-loan interest, depreciation, parking, home office: most Turo hosts leave thousands on the table.

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The Backdoor Roth IRA: A Step-by-Step Guide for High Earners

4 min read · April 2026

Earning too much to contribute to a Roth? The legal backdoor takes about 15 minutes. Here's the step-by-step.

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