I own a two-person educational software company. We have a CPA that we engage once a year to do our business taxes and can't afford anything fancier than that. It's an LLC taxed as an S-Corp so all of the "profit" goes directly to me on my Schedule K. For 2022, if this is not reversed, I will owe around $100K in taxes. For reference, my salary was around $100k. I'll have to take out a payment plan with the IRS, and probably shut down the company if nothing changes because I can't do that again for 2023 and beyond.

We aren't making huge profits to absorb the costs and give me a fat bonus to cover my taxes. In fact in 2022, I WAS expecting a nice $30k loss and a refund. Do we deserve to survive? Probably not in some peoples' minds, but we've been scrapping together a living so far. It sucks because we were actually growing and gaining some momentum: any further growth would now be pretty impossible because I can't afford to pay my personal taxes to cover additional dev salaries.