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We suspect that it depends on whom you ask! The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reports that they received some 24.8 million business tax returns for the year 1999. Many of these are hobby-type businesses, one-person consultants, writers, artists and the like. In fact, one source reports that there are 18 million non-employee businesses.

Home-Based Businesses

According to INC magazine 61 percent of the firms in their 500 fastest-growing companies list started out as home-based. And, on average 15 months after they started, they moved to outside space. Some of them will grow to be large businesses. Quite a few of these business rather than have actual employees use independent contractors or outsource work needed. Many others are making an excellent living for the owner, and still other owners are quite content with the results of their business.