If you are doing business as a proprietor, there is no requirement that you open a separate bank account for the business.

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Scrooge and Marley is basically a collection agency micro-business, whose proprietor did not even make the Forbes 15 List of Wealthiest Fictional Characters.

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Go ask a sole proprietor doing business on the main drag of your town.

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If you are the sole proprietor of a business and you file an IRS Schedule C form, you are roughly twice as likely to be audited than an individual filer with comparable W-2 income.

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Blakely remembers almost begging business owners like the proprietor of a Clearwater, Fla. fruit and vegetable shop to buy her products.

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In some industries, the government continues to act as a proprietor, owning and managing business within a central planning regime that sets input and output targets.

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The proprietor was clearly doing a roaring business.

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Schedule C, claiming to be a proprietor, but you must actually be in business.

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As a sole proprietor you are personally responsible for all of a business' liabilities, including its debts and any liability judgments against it.

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Kris Clark, proprietor of the George Hotel in Inverary, said the blocked road was again costing money and affecting business, and longer-term improvements were needed.

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