31 Small Business Tax Deductions For Home & Office
Since deducting expenses from your top-line revenues reduces your tax burden, it’s easy to be too aggressive in claiming them. However, not deducting all that you are allowed leaves money on table. Use the following checklist of rules to reduce your taxable income as much as legally possible. (Note: Due to the complexity of tax laws, […]
Marketers brace for paper cost increase
Direct marketers and catalogers are preparing to face paper cost increases this fall, while also planning for a possible significant postal rate increase in January. Marketers say volatility in the paper market in recent years, due to economic instability, has made it difficult for them to project costs from one year to the next. Many […]
Best Paying Cities for Graphic Designers
Should you relocate to make more money as a graphic designer? Or even look for graphic design colleges in specific cities to improve your employment prospects? Certain cities do pay significantly more than others. If a high salary is your primary goal, then you should know the five highest paying metropolitan areas for graphic designers […]
US Tax Rules You Should Know About for 2011
There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about federal taxes for 2010 and 2011. Will proposed tax cuts, such as 50 percent bonus depreciation on equipment purchases, an extension of the research credit, and an increase in the deduction for startup cost for small businesses be enacted this year? Will the Bush tax cuts expire […]
L.L. Bean Taxed by New Ohio Law
Image via Wikipedia Apparel, outdoor gear and home goods cataloger L.L. Bean appears to be the test case regarding a new Ohio tax law. The state is telling Freeport, ME-based L.L. Bean that it must pay about $210,000 relative to Ohio’s new tax law known as commercial activity tax (CAT). The CAT law was enacted […]
USPS Barcode Requirements for 2011
The Intelligent Mail barcode (IMb) first became available for both letters and flats in May 2007. Since then, customers have mailed nearly 40 billion IMb mailpieces. Beginning May 2011, to be eligible for automation discounts on letter-size and flat-size mailpieces, mailers will need to use the IMb instead of the PostNet barcode using the Full […]
The 2010 Inkjet Ink Report
Inkjet printing has enjoyed excellent growth during the past decade. A look at how the mix between conventional and digital printing technologies has changed at major trade shows such as drupa and IPEX clearly shows this trend. Having taken a large chunk of the screen market, there is every indication that digital will soon take […]
USA: Is a Value-Added Tax Heading Our Way?
There is a great deal of buzz starting to generate around the “value-added tax” (or VAT). The concept of a VAT was first proposed by Wilhelm von Siemens, son of the founder of Siemens in 1918. The first country to implement a value-added tax was France in 1954. Today, nearly 100 countries have a VAT. […]
Letter to President on Chinese Subsidies
Appleton Coated LLC, NewPage Corporation and Sappi Fine Paper North America applauded the efforts of more than 100 members of Congress who wrote to President Obama asking for action on Chinese subsidies to their paper producers. The letter to the President urges that he “carefully examine the practices employed by the Chinese government to provide […]
Printers head to D.C. to urge block of postal rate hikes
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Printing Industries of America’s members from across the country are gathering on Capitol Hill next month to oppose an emergency postal rate hike proposal that would dramatically bust caps on postal rate increases imposed by Congress in 2006. The USPS is petitioning to raise rates higher than allowed by current law, claiming […]
Online Sales Tax Collection is Coming
“States are under pressure to raise their revenues, and with e-commerce sales rising, they are seeing these revenues go out of state,” Fiorentino said. “I don’t see the states ignoring it for a long time. Sales tax has become an issue for everyone, and in the near future we’ll all be collecting.” According to a […]
Skype: Fear and loathing in Cupertino, Mountain View
Analysis Skype’s IPO has revealed some interesting nuggets about the voice network provider’s intentions and fears as it looks to make an initial public offering of its shares. Chief among them are its decision to ditch MySpace and expressions of concern about Google and Apple. “We believe that users that have registered through MySpace are […]
