What Five Years of Declining Sales Means for Your Books The numbers coming out of Colorado tell a story every cultivator, manufacturer, and retailer in the state is already living: wholesale prices near record lows, and retail sales that have declined for five straight years. [...]
Quick Answer: California cannabis retailers holding combined A/M licenses are facing a real tax gap in 2026. DOJ's rescheduling order moved qualifying medical cannabis activity to Schedule III, removing Section 280E for that side of the business, while adult-use activity stays [...]
Cannabis accounting is not traditional bookkeeping applied to a niche industry. It is a specialized discipline built around the unique operational, tax, and regulatory environment cannabis businesses face. Cannabis accountants manage IRC Section 280E compliance, multi-state [...]
The IRS Audit Trigger Most Operators Ignore You have figured out 280E, and your inventory is tracked, but when we sit down with cannabis operators for the first time, payroll is almost always the gap nobody has looked at closely. We see this pattern constantly where payroll [...]
Stabilizing Your Financial Position with Proactive Cash Engineering When California’s cannabis excise tax jumped from 15% to 19% in July 2025, the industry braced for impact, with operators facing severe strain on their cash flow and POS technical failures. In our earlier [...]