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Source: financialedge.investopedia.com - Jan 9, 2012

Posted: January 6, 2012 11:16AM by Brian O'Connell Will small businesses face significant harm if Congress goes through with the Marketplace Freedom Act? The act gives states the authority to... Read more >

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Source: houmatoday.com - Jan 7, 2012

A commercial shrimper from Cut Off pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to offering an agent with the Internal Revenue Service $6,000 in cash and shrimp in exchange for faking tax documents.... Read more >

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Source: etax.dor.ga.gov - Dec 15, 2011

Overview Effective January 1, 2012, all retail sellers of prepaid wireless must collect a fee of 75 cents per transaction and file a Prepaid Wireless 911 return. The fee was previously administered... Read more >

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Source: businessweek.com - Dec 1, 2011

By ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON Any extension of this year's payroll tax cut must be paid for with savings from elsewhere in the budget, House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday. Boehner's comment... Read more >

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Source: lsureveille.com - Nov 28, 2011

Baton Rouge will open its first tax-free shopping refund center for international shoppers today at Macy's in the Mall of Louisiana. At the refund center, paperwork for eligible shoppers will be... Read more >

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Source: law.com - Nov 28, 2011

Brian Glaser Corporate Counsel November 29, 2011 Earlier this year, online retailer Amazon.com massed its legal and political troops to battle the State of California over a proposal to require... Read more >

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Source: online.wsj.com - Nov 15, 2011

Small companies need the business. But they also can't afford to be too lenient. By EMILY MALTBY [HELP] Jason Schneider Call it a cash-crunch contagion. One business owner falls behind on paying... Read more >

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Source: fox8live.com - Nov 7, 2011

By Jeff Brown Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) All of us who own stocks or stock funds are moaning and groaning about the 3-year-old bear market. But there's another group of sufferers: fixed-income... Read more >

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Source: smallbiztrends.com - Nov 7, 2011

A paradox is a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or... Read more >

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Source: washingtonpost.com - Nov 5, 2011

By Marie Johns, Published: November 1 The federal government spends more than $500 billion a year in contracts, making it the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world. Small businesses... Read more >

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