More children will be playing with safe, earth-friendly toys thanks to this year’s NASE Achievement Award recipient Sheri Novak.
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Sep 01, 2008
More than 45 million people in the United States have chronic headaches, says the National Headache Foundation, and 28 million of those suffer from migraines.
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Sep 01, 2008
If you’re afraid you’ll be scavenging for pennies during your retirement years, you’re not alone.
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Sep 01, 2008
What’s the fastest way to double the size of your home-based business? Hire your first employee. But while you’ll now have additional help, you can also double your headaches if you don’t hire the right person for your home office.
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Sep 01, 2008
Micro-business owners aren’t escaping the anguish of the economic downturn. In a recent online poll conducted by the NASE, 86 percent of respondents reported a moderate to significant impact on the health of their firms.
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Sep 01, 2008
It’s a quiet crime. Sometimes the only evidence is a missing pair of jeans or a vacant display shelf. Shoplifting, though, can do a big bang on your bottom line.
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Sep 01, 2008
With the upcoming elections in November, the NASE is beginning to prepare for a new Congress and a new White House in 2009. We want to hit the ground running to make certain that policymakers are aware of the difficulties faced by the self-employed and micro-business owners. To ensure that the NASE prioritizes the issues important to your business, we need to hear from you about your top concerns.
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Jul 31, 2008
NASE Member Scott Scribner testified on Capitol Hill regarding the importance of the SBA Office of Advocacy’s Regulatory Review and Reform (r3) initiative to reduce the confusion and complexity surrounding the home office deduction. Key hurdles faced by the self-employed in taking this deduction are the strict qualifying requirements, the complexity of the form and instructions, and the underlying fear that employing this tax benefit will flag them for review or audit by the IRS.
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Jul 30, 2008
The House Ways & Means Committee held a mark up today on legislation to address the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) which included a provision that would increase both the tax compliance burden and business costs for micro-business and the self-employed.
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Jun 18, 2008
Expanding information reporting by requiring credit and debit card issuers to report business owners’ annual electronic payment transactions to the IRS is just one of the many alarming tax gap recommendations which would increase tax regulation on small business.
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Jun 12, 2008