Forbes contributor Jim Blasingame, in Is Barter Right For Your Small Business?

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Small business should look for barter opportunities.

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If you use business assets as part of your barter, you may have capital gains, ordinary gains and depreciation recapture to report.

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Barter is a slow, expensive and highly restrictive way for companies to do business.

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The won was effectively "like toilet paper" he said and because all business was done using dollars the currency was used by people to barter even at the lowest levels of North Korean society.

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The firm does business as well in Khartoum, Addis Ababa and Cape Town and recently pioneered barter deals in Vietnam, Myanmar and eastern Europe.

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