Business Keep · $80 a year
Business tax continuity, across every return the business files.
What it keeps
- Entity records
- Legal name, EIN, entity type, formation, owners, addresses with effective dates. The business as a durable thing, not a header on one form.
- Income tax
- Year facts and the attributes that outlive them: NOLs, general business credit carryforwards, basis, at-risk amounts, suspended losses, elections.
- Employment tax
- Employees as relationships, the quarterly and annual filings as history, deposits and liabilities as year facts that never carry forward by assumption.
- Excise tax
- Vehicles by VIN with status and history — a sold truck does not disappear, its status changes. The vehicle outlives any one Form 2290.
- Information returns
- Contractors and vendors as reusable payee records with supporting documents, so a 1099 cycle starts from known data. The 1099 Test, passed.
- Assets and depreciation
- Acquisition, in-service date, basis, method, the history of what was claimed — attributes with provenance, not a schedule re-typed each year.
The 1099 Test
A contractor is a relationship, not a box on a form.
The central test of a business continuity product: once you have paid a contractor, the next 1099 cycle should start from known data rather than from last year's PDF. Passing it means the relationship is represented as reusable structured data — and the same principle covers employees, vendors, vehicles and assets.
- 01
First year
You pay a contractor. Keep records the payee — identity, address, the identifier it holds with care — the payments as that year's facts, and the W-9 and 1099-NEC as documents tied to the relationship.
- 02
Second year
The relationship is already there. Keep asks whether it continued, takes this year's payments, and Gideon Tax prepares the 1099 from known data. You confirm the amount, not the vendor.
- 03
The year it ends
You mark the relationship ended. It does not vanish: the history of every filing it appeared on stays inspectable, and next year Keep stops expecting a form from them.
Vehicles
The truck is the record. Form 2290 is a view of it.
A vehicle is relevant to many filings across its life: heavy vehicle use tax every year it is in service, a refund claim when it is sold or destroyed, depreciation on the income return. Keep holds the vehicle — VIN, weight, first use, status with dates — and each filing reads what it needs. Sold does not mean deleted.
Carryforwards
Attributes with a history, not numbers with a year.
A net operating loss, a general business credit carryforward, an at-risk amount or a suspended passive loss is kept with its origin, every amount consumed and by which return, every adjustment, and a balance derived from that trail. Whether it may be used this year is decided by this year's law in Gideon Tax — never assumed.
Honest scope
Business Keep is not bookkeeping, payroll, invoicing or accounting software, and it does not try to be. It is the durable tax record a business accumulates and the verification that keeps it trustworthy. The subscription pays for software, storage, structured data, document processing and automated verification — not for human preparation, reconciliation, bookkeeping or data entry, which stay separately priced.
$80 a year for the business. Renews automatically.
Business Keep is being built with the businesses already filing employment and excise returns through Gideon — every return they file is history Keep can carry forward.