New York To Boomer Business Owners: Get Lost

December 8, 2011

The Empire State takes a big chunk of its entrepreneurs’ lifetime earnings. Tax-conscious business owners will get out while they can.

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Amazon’s New Tactic In An Old Fight

July 28, 2011

California voters will decide if their state is reaching too far in a bid to collect taxes from Amazon.

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A Mild Pain Reliever With A Risk Of Side Effects

June 29, 2011

Connecticut’s much-ballyhooed new law requiring some businesses to provide paid sick leave to some workers is pretty mild medicine, economically, but it still could have some unpleasant side effects. The legislation that takes effect in January is the first in the nation to mandate paid sick leave on a state level. Under the new law, employees classified as “service workers” must accrue at least five days of paid sick leave …

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A Tax System That Promotes Prosperity

October 8, 2010

When you don’t ask the right questions, your chances of reaching the right answers are not very good. That is why this year’s showdown over tax rates is going to leave businesses burdened with counterproductive taxes, no matter who wins in November. The only thing we are really debating is how heavy that counterproductive burden will be. This is unfortunate. A more intelligently designed tax system could help build the …

The End Of Our Company-Paid Health Insurance

September 1, 2010

For 15 years, I have taken pride in paying the full cost of health insurance for every full-time Palisades Hudson employee who wanted it. This month marks the last time I will do that. Beginning in October, our 20 employees will make their own decisions, and their own arrangements, regarding health coverage. They can stay on our company’s plan, but they will have to pay the entire cost — ranging …

Taxing The Tan, Not The Sun

July 21, 2010

Ultraviolet light does not do anyone’s skin any favors, even when it imparts an attractive tan. And skin does not care whether light of a particular wavelength comes from a nearby star or from a fluorescent tube. But the Internal Revenue Service cares. Since July 1, the IRS has cared a lot. The recently passed health care bill has just imposed a new 10 percent “tanning tax,” which makes a …

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The Hidden Cost of Cheating

July 15, 2010

The Cajuns who settled Louisiana’s bayous have a distinct culture that goes beyond French words and spicy food. Forced long ago from their Canadian homes, separated by language and religion from the society that grew around them, the Cajuns, for the most part, wanted government to leave them alone. Like a lot of other Americans who think of government as “them” rather than “us,” they saw little shame in working …

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Controlling Your Company’s Destiny

July 7, 2010

One Tuesday night a few weeks ago, a janitor vacuuming in our computer room accidentally unplugged a cable, cutting off power to three of our firm’s servers and damaging some hardware. Coincidentally, the same night, a power outage at Intuit knocked out that company’s primary and backup website systems. Approximately 300,000 businesses that use Web-based products such as Intuit Online Payroll, Quicken Online, QuickBooks Online, TurboTax and QuickBase were left …

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