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Craft Brewers Leaving R&D Tax Credits Untapped

Craft Brewers Leaving R&D Tax Credits Untapped

By Pinion Editorial | November 16, 2018
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Opportunities Available to Reduce Income Tax Liabilities for Craft Brewers Tax reform has created ample changes for businesses, as well as confusion in the craft brewers marketplace for what applies and what doesn’t. The clarity around applying the Research and Development (R&D) tax credit is no exception. The R&D tax …

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Midyear Tax Checkup Pays Off for Manufacturers

Determining Sales & Use Tax – What Manufacturers Need to Know

By Christy Norton | October 12, 2018
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Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in South Dakota v. Wayfair, stating that a physical presence is no longer required to establish substantial nexus in the collection of sales and use tax. Now, it’s an “economic nexus” that establishes the need to collect sales tax. This …

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Financial Data Protection

How Safe is Your Financial Data?

By K·Coe Editorial | October 3, 2018
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Recent national cybercrime headlines: “Cybercriminals Obtain Employee Credentials to Conduct Payroll Diversion” “Business Email Compromises Business Data” “Increase in W-2 Phishing Campaigns” Imagine if you lost access to a year’s worth of financial information – accounting records, tax returns, audit trails – that could either never be fully recovered, or …

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Outsourcing HR services for large and small operations

How HR Outsourcing is Saving Large and Small Operations

By Danielle McCormick | September 28, 2018
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In an age of skilled labor shortages and tight profit margins, the expenditure on HR Outsourcing might not be top of mind for many companies.  But it should be, according to workplace statistics, as the reality is that both small and large businesses are capturing big savings, ROI, and more …

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Anticipation of Retaliation over US Tariff Approvals Hits Home

How the Trade War is Affecting U.S. Agriculture

By K·Coe Editorial | August 1, 2018
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The United States has instigated an aggressive global trade war that is escalating and directly harming many U.S. agricultural producers by driving up the costs of U.S. commodities in foreign countries and increasing input costs for U.S. producers and food processors. This analysis summarizes the actions and retaliatory measures taken …

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Midyear Tax Checkup Pays Off for Manufacturers

Midyear Tax Checkup Pays Off for Manufacturers

By K·Coe Editorial | July 17, 2018
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The new provisions for 2018 have changed a multitude of tax deductions, exemptions, rates and brackets. Now that the fanfare around the ‘first tax reform in 30 years’ has settled down, have you taken the time to perform a tax checkup and evaluate what it means for your business? “We’ve …

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Meal and Entertainment Deductions

Are You Correctly Tracking Business Deductions for Meals and Entertainment?

By K·Coe Editorial | July 9, 2018
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Here’s an update to the following blog that you may be interested in: Tax Update: Entertainment Clarified Businesses of all sizes and across all industries need to be aware that the business deductions for 2018 meals and entertainment have changed following tax reform. In general, the old provisions were 50 …

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