photo credit: net_efekt Joanna Kenworthy sent in this note: In a statement released in October, President Obama said “small businesses are the engine for economic growth.” He has since unveiled a multi-billion dollar stimulus package part of which will help small business owners grow and create jobs. American Express OPEN, the small business division of […]
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The Wall Street Journal: President Obama mentioned “entrepreneurs” and “small-business owners” — “the hardest working people on earth”- several times in his first address to Congress. The U.S. economy, he says, relies on innovation and small businesses continuing to hire workers to stay strong. Though the President didn’t offer new proposals geared directly at entrepreneurs,
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The Boston Globe: Some people just can’t help themselves when they see an opportunity to make money off those who can least afford it. When times are tough, people tend to be a bit more vulnerable when someone is dangling the idea of free money in front of them. Scammers being who they are –
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The Wall Street Journal: Ready, set…..go win that federal contract. The government is expected to spend monstrous sums in coming months, based on the Senate and House stimulus plans: $16 billion for construction and renovation of schools, $9 billion to increase broadband, $40 billion for the development of cleaner and more efficient energy, and on
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The New York Times: The $787 billion recovery package that President Obama signed into law on has a little something for most small-business owners, though some complained that the law’s benefits were not easy to figure out. “Who has time to read it?” Ethan Siegel, chief executive of Orb Audio, a maker of home theater
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photo credit: Nesster The IRS kindly sent over this press release: Although no phrase may strike more fear in a taxpayer than the dreaded, “IRS audit”, the prospect of an IRS audit need not paralyze your small business. You can learn how to prepare for and what to expect during an audit by tuning in
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The New York Times: With the economy in terrible shape, owners of small businesses could use a break. The tax code offers many to choose from, including some recent additions, and others may be on the way. Businesses received a batch of concessions late last year, when several measures that expired in 2007 were extended
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photo credit: SC Fiasco Facing a potential $6 billion shortfall this year, the U.S. Postal Service has asked Congress to allow it to cut one day of mail delivery and it wouldn’t necessarily be Saturday! In fact, they’re proposing to suspend mail delivery on, of all things, Tuesday. What’s next, no mail delivery in months
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ars technica: Things are not looking good for Amazon and other online retailers who have been avoiding collecting sales taxes from customers, and for customers who have avoided paying them. A fairly new New York state tax law–dubbed the “Amazon Tax”–has been given the green light as a judge dismissed two lawsuits alleging that the
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photo credit: jurvetson It might be a little late to get to Washington DC for the inauguration tomorrow, but you can still cash in on Obama-mania in your hometown as Chuck Huckaby explains: Because Obama’s image is in the public domain, you can print it as much as you want on T-shirts, mugs, or… as
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