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National Taxpayer Advocate Slams New 1099 Rules
Everybody else is complaining about those new reporting requirement and the burden they’re going to impose on small businesses. Why should Nina Olsen be any different?
Nina Olsen, in case you didn’t know, is the National Taxpayer Advocate. A few years ago, when she named the tax gap as the top taxpayer challenge for fiscal 2004 [...]
Specials
Special: An Interview with Anita Campbell
Well, here's something completely different. I decided to take a break from complaining about politicians for this final podcast of the ...
Special Commentary: Microbusiness Manifesto
As I mentioned last week, both my newsletters (The MicroEnterprise Journal and the Microbusiness News Briefs) are on hiatus until ...
Special Commentary: Labor Day 2009
Have you ever noticed that we have emerged from recession to 'jobless recovery' in every economic downturn the U.S. has ...
Podcasts
Senate Follows Up On Small Business Access To BroadbandWell, I’m not going to do that again!
It was supposed to be an upgrade, really.
The original plan was to merge this podcast into a new Blog Talk Radio program called Microbusiness Conversations. The format of the show would be an initial ten minutes of microbusiness news followed by a twenty minute conversation with the week’s [...]
So, yeah, it’s Small Business Week.
Are you excited?
Last week, President Obama signed the relevant proclamation, which proclaimed, in part:
In this year’s State of the Union address, I proposed creating a $30 billion lending fund to help increase the flow of credit to small businesses, and I call on the Congress to pass this legislation [...]
Yes, last week was broadband week but, as you’ll hear, it was a lot more than that.
Last week, members of both the House and Senate Small Business Committees got an opportunity to get a little bit clued in to how microbusinesses do business now, and how larger small businesses hope to do business in the [...]
