washingtonpost.com - Small BusinessSmall BusinessRetirement Plans Get More Attractive- April 23, 2005 Pensions and retirement savings have been a long-standing source of tension between small-business owners and the government.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12926-2001Jun17.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Firms Seek Fairness On Competitive Bids- April 23, 2005 One of the enduring complaints of small businesses concerns their inability to get what they regard as their fair share of government contracts and grants.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2488-2001Aug12.html?nav=rss_business/column... Rules, Rules. And Big Business Thought It Had It Bad- April 23, 2005 American businesses large and small complain loud and long about the costs associated with all the various rules imposed upon them, especially those laid on by the federal government.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39881-2001Nov4.html?nav=rss_business/column... IRS to Take a Closer Look At the Jobs of Consultants- April 23, 2005 Thanks to layoffs, the growth of entrepreneurship and other socioeconomic developments, pleasant and unpleasant, the number of people hanging out shingles as consultants is going up sharply.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6741-2001Jul1.html?nav=rss_business/columns... An SBA Advantage On Arlington's Border- April 23, 2005 Accidents of geography continue to produce oddities and ironies in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. The latest: Small businesses in Montgomery County are eligible for special Small Business Administration economic injury disaster loans because of the attack on the Pentagon, but those in Prince George's are not.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18738-2001Oct7.html?nav=rss_business/column... Change in Management On Senate Committee- April 23, 2005 The change in control of the Senate means a change in direction for the chamber's Small Business Committee as well.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16704-2001Jun3.html?nav=rss_business/column... Firms Closed by Attacks Seek Uncharted Coverage- April 23, 2005 Small businesses and their insurers are venturing into uncharted territory in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14778-2001Sep24.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Business Advocates Criticize SBA Cuts- April 23, 2005 The Bush administration's budget proposal for the Small Business Administration is not playing terribly well on Capitol Hill.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52454-2001May6.html?nav=rss_business/column... Low Default Rate on Loans Puts Money in Bank for U.S.- April 23, 2005 Many owners of small businesses were able to take a grim satisfaction in the recent federal budget surplus, knowing that their taxes played a part in building it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2031-2001Sep9.html?nav=rss_business/columns... Payroll Tax Arguments The IRS Won't Buy- April 23, 2005 Taxes, and the avoidance of them, continue not surprisingly to be a topic of great interest among owners of small businesses.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50843-2001Nov18.html?nav=rss_business/colum... |