I'm a newly licensed Real Estate Broker what is my business start date?
I was newly licensed 7/08/2020. I affiliated with a firm as a provisional broker on 7/22/2020. I have a large number of expenses some of which I incurred prior to affiliating with the firm and some immediately after affiliating. I consider all of these startup expenses but now I'm not sure. I didn't actually earn any money until 10/11/2020. So what would be considered the date my self employment business be considered started? Would it be the day I affiliated with a firm? Since I could not earn anything until I affiliated with a BIC since I was provisional? TIA