When you are in business, one of your primary goals should be to maximize any options to be profitable. One of those ways is to take advantage of tax credits as allowed by law.

This is especially true if you are a small company or a tax-exempt organization. The need to survive financially is based on certain rules, including profitability, liability, customer service, employee quality and tax incentives.

Being on top of your game in all these categories is akin to the old Ed Sullivan Show TV bit with the man who juggled a row of spinning china plates on tall sticks without breaking any of them—a true balancing act. If one of them became a little wobbly, then the juggler would run to that stick and spin it again so it would not drop.