Posts Tagged ‘ microbusiness ’

National Taxpayer Advocate Slams New 1099 Rules

Jul 20th, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Current

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 [...]

 


Advocacy Chief Counsel Nominee Remains in Limbo

Jul 13th, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Current

Sometimes, Washington still has the power to surprise me.
Take this debacle with the nomination of Dr. Winslow Sargeant. Personally, given that it is not required by statute for the Chief Counsel of the SBA Office of Advocacy to be a lawyer, Senator Olympia Snowe’s intransigence about it strikes me as being a bit unreasonable … [...]