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President Barack Obama says Senate Republicans are playing politics with bills that would extend benefits to the unemployed and increase lending to small businesses.
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Small-business credit card use creates jobs both directly and indirectly, giving businesses a beneficial financial “cushion” against cash shortages, a new study finds. The increase in small-business credit card use from 2003 to 2008 “contributed directly to the creation of 592,000 small business jobs and an additional one million direct or induced jobs throughout the U.S. economy,” according to …
Report: Most small businesses eligible for tax credit
About 78 percent of Nevada small businesses will qualify for a health insurance tax credit under the new health care overhaul signed into law in March.
New Report Shows 81.3 Percent Of Hawaii Small Businesses Eligible For Health Care Tax Credits
More than 81.3 percent of Hawaii small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be eligible this year for tax credits to help pay the cost of employee health coverage, according to a new report issued by the consumer health organization Families USA and small business advocacy group Small Business Majority. The tax credit program, a key element of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care …
Does small-business pessimism weaken economy?
Are small businesses the cause of the weaker economy that is reflected in the Federal Reserve’s new downbeat forecast for the second half?Small business owners have had a somewhat pessimistic outlook for 30 straight months, according to the monthly…
New Report Shows 81.0 Percent Of Alaska Small Businesses Eligible For Health Care Tax Credits
More than 81.0 percent of Alaska small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be eligible this year for tax credits to help pay the cost of employee health coverage, according to a new report issued by the consumer health organization Families USA and small business advocacy group Small Business Majority. The tax credit program, a key element of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care …
New Report Shows 94.0 Percent Of Montana Small Businesses Eligible For Health Care Tax Credits
More than 94.0 percent of Montana small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be eligible this year for tax credits to help pay the cost of employee health coverage, according to a new report issued by the consumer health organization Families USA and small business advocacy group Small Business Majority. The tax credit program, a key element of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care …
Poll: Small-business owners support clean energy legislation
The poll, conducted for Small Business Majority and the Main Street Alliance , included 105 S.C. small-business operators and was conducted July 7-10.
Small businesses struggle to stay afloat in South Wilton
Nancy Vorel was ready to close her recession-ravaged business, The Red Rose Consignment Shop at 1 Danbury Road, then decided to try an unconventional approach to save her store. “Instead of a ‘Store Closing Sale,’ I thought I would run a ‘Save the Business Sale,’” she said.
New Report Shows 82.6 Percent Of Colorado Small Businesses Eligible For Health Care Tax Credits
More than 82.6 percent of Colorado small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be eligible this year for tax credits to help pay the cost of employee health coverage, according to a new report issued by the consumer health organization Families USA and small business advocacy group Small Business Majority. The tax credit program, a key element of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care …
New Report Shows 87.1 Percent Of Oregon Small Businesses Eligible For Health Care Tax Credits
More than 87.1 percent of Oregon small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be eligible this year for tax credits to help pay the cost of employee health coverage, according to a new report issued by the consumer health organization Families USA and small business advocacy group Small Business Majority. The tax credit program, a key element of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care …
For small businesses, loans are plentiful as long as they’re plastic-backed
On Monday Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took up the growing issue of lack of lending to small businesses by banks, and the havoc it’s causing in the economy. Lending to small businesses contracted by $40 billion for the first quarter of 2010 as compared to 2008. Only a third to half of small businesses were able to secure a loan or line of credit in 2009. And Small Business …
Idaho small businesses qualify for tax credit
More than 89.5 percent of Idaho small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be eligible this year for tax credits to help pay the cost of employee health coverage, according to a new report issued by the consumer health organization Families USA and small business advocacy group Small Business Majority.
Obama in radio address scolds GOP for blocking unemployed, small business aid
President Barack Obama says Senate Republicans are playing politics with bills that would extend benefits to the unemployed and increase lending to small businesses. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, FilePresident Barack Obama gestures while speaking in Ottumwa, Iowa, in April. Striking a…
Small business credit cards stage a tentative comeback
Small business owners, whose credit choices evaporated amid the recession and new regulations, have seen a modest return of credit cards aimed at them
Small business services promoted
The man charged with improving the work of organizations supporting the state’s small business community brought his message to Greenville and Jones County on Wednesday.
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If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts lately you’ll know I’ve come to adding a few news posts from around the web on this subject. I’ve got a couple more today that are new and updated, so let me know what you think of em…
The Christie Reform Agenda: Taking Action to Provide Real Property …
“With this package of bills, we are now taking action to bring to an end the current property tax crisis and giving people real relief. After talking about the direction we need to move, we now need to get down to business and enact these reforms. … 8- 9) Shared services reform – when local units decide to share services current law requires buyout of union contracts, bumping and other civil service protections that destroy the efficiencies of the merger; this proposal …
Another Irresponsible Budget Stopped, for Now » DeKalb County Online
The Illinois House passed SB 3658 this past week which would remove the state sales tax on back to school supplies and clothing. The 10-day holiday if signed into law would start August 6th and waive the 5 percent state sales tax on … Loss of local tax revenue from the convention business means the state will have to subsidize bond payments for McCormick Place. Efforts to refinance those bonds in recent years could have saved the state $250 to 500 million but were …
TNInvestco faces another ‘no’ vote in the Senate
TNInvestco is a program enabled by the Tennessee Small Business Investment Company Credit Act, which passed in last year's General Assembly with only one dissenting vote from State Rep. Susan Lynn. … During an open records request and subsequent court challenge for Kisber and Farr's scoring matrices used to award the first $120 million in tax credits, Kisber invoked a little-known 1988 law allowing him to seal records in his department deemed too sensitive. …
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I am filing my business taxes late for our corporation. I know for a fact the corporation has not made a penny this year. Will I be charged penalties for filing late?
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