washingtonpost.com - Small BusinessSmall BusinessGAO Finds Little Help To Understand Rules- April 23, 2005 Back in 1996, Congress passed a law designed to force federal agencies to give a hand to small businesses when the agencies impose new rules that have a serious impact on those businesses.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47108-2002Jan27.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Medical Savings Accounts: An Answer to Health Costs- April 23, 2005 As health care costs resume their seemingly inexorable climb, the latest buzzwords making the rounds of employers are "defined contribution health benefits."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A713-2001Aug26.html?nav=rss_business/columns... New Number, Fewer Answers at IRS- April 23, 2005 For the past month or so, budding entrepreneurs report that it has been all but impossible to reach the Internal Revenue Service to obtain an employer identification number (EIN), without which it's impossible to open a business bank account, get health insurance, or even deposit or pay taxes properly.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40963-2002Jan13.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Service Providers Who Invest In Client Firms Lose Tax Ruling- April 23, 2005 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit dealt a blow last week to small-business owners who invest in other enterprises for which they provide services.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50443-2001Apr22.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Payroll Taxes Are Extended to Cover Certain Options- April 23, 2005 Stock options continue to spring new tax traps.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42727-2001Dec30.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Bush Tax Cuts Not Targeting Small Business- April 23, 2005 Small-business owners should not expect the Bush administration to press for tax breaks and other benefits "targeted" at them, the head of the president's Council of Economic Advisers warned last week.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4298-2001Jul29.html?nav=rss_business/column... IRS Lets Some Larger Businesses Switch to Cash Accounting- April 23, 2005 In an announcement that was celebrated by small-business groups, the Internal Revenue Service said last week that it would allow many more businesses to use cash accounting.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52486-2001Dec16.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Risk-Based Pricing Has High Credit Cost- April 23, 2005 Surveys by the Federal Reserve and others show that banks are tightening their lending standards, a process that is usually bad news for small businesses. But surveys by the National Federation of Independent Business and others show that most small businesses aren't finding credit to be a major problem.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53390-2001May20.html?nav=rss_business/colum... A Longtime Friendship Is on 'Hold' Over Bill- April 23, 2005 Republicans and small business are normally the best of friends. Both want low taxes and small government.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47172-2001Dec2.html?nav=rss_business/column... Lawmakers Hear Outline Of Desired Tax Changes- April 23, 2005 What do small businesses want in the way of tax changeshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57599-2001Apr8.html?nav=rss_business/column... |