New Study: California has worse quality of life, Iowa best overall, Colorado has best economy
California has the worst quality of life in the United States, according to a new ranking released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. Public domain image/National Atlas of the United States According to the More...
TRANSCRIPT: President Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address
President Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. Read the President’s speech as prepared for delivery and released by the White House. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members More...
Illinois Governor Prohibits Lawmakers from Handling Property Tax Appeals
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is prohibiting lawmakers form handling property tax appeals, ending a property tax system that he calls unethical and immoral. Rauner was joined by homeowners in Chicago at a news More...
Four Major Business Protections and Trends to Focus on in 2018 and Beyond
Safety represents the top priority of just about every business owner, right? This is especially true in 2018 with more and more concerns about cybersecurity, breaches and potential internal scandals. Whether it’s More...
Why an LLC seems to be the perfect legal entity for your business?
In spite of the deep-rooted impacts of the Great Recession, people are now increasingly optimistic about the usually climate of businesses in the nation, though majority of the wealth that has been generated has More...
Will Tax Breaks Really Help to Bring Business Back to the US?
The biggest question on everybody’s mind is how an overhaul of the corporate tax structure could positively impact the US economy. The National Economic Council is one of the most important bodies used for reviewing More...
Chuck Schumer Quotes (UPD: No Ride List for trains)
I love the example of AT&T…Over the last ten years, AT&T has paid an average tax rate of eight percent a year. They have 80,000 fewer employees today than they had then. Tax breaks don’t lead More...
Chuck Schumer attacks tax reform, insults AT&T just as company issues Christmas bonuses
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) on Wednesday attacked AT&T by name for not passing along tax savings to its employees immediately after the telecommunications giant announced that it would do More...
House passes Senate tax bill, heads to Trump who touts ‘Jobs jobs jobs’
The House of Representatives passed the Senate tax reform package Wednesday afternoon, sending the the legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. The bill passed the House a second time More...
4 Ways to Deal with Inheritance Tax Issues
According to the UK government’s inheritance tax statistics, inheritance tax receipts increased 4% from 2015-16 to reach around £4.9 billion in 2016-17. However, this growth was substantially lower than the growth More...
Is investing in medical alert system a judicious decision?
How would it be if someone assures you of giving you peace of mind and that you could heave a sigh of relief because there is someone to take care of your loved ones? Oftentimes, this can be shrugged off as a utopian More...
Smart Tax Strategies That Can Help Your Business Save Big Each Year
While running a business, taxes are not something you can ignore or avoid. They are essential, and they come with a plethora of penalties, interest costs for inappropriate filings and fines. Since there are quite More...
The importance of planning for your retirement
Don’t skimp on the savings in the years leading up to your retirement. Retirement comes to most of us at some point. However, thanks to cuts to state pensions and a rising cost of living we don’t all have the More...
5 reasons to avoid the pitfalls of poor bookkeeping
Do you happen to run a small business? Or perhaps you’re self-employed and are in charge of your own finances? Do you find accounting software to be a little bit intimidating? If you answered yes to one of these, More...
Things to consider when setting up your business
Setting up a new business from scratch is an exciting and daunting experience and it can be easy to get swept up in the exuberance of it all, and to forget to get all of your ducks in a row. Missing something integral More...
Illinois budget can’t be passed as credit rating downgrade looms
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton plans to call a spending and revenue package for a vote on Tuesday. The Senate adjourned on Monday without taking votes on the revenue and spending measures, which had met More...
US Senate release Obamacare replacement plan, immediately attacked by critics
Setting the headlines on fire, the U.S. Senate Republicans finally rolled out their “Obamacare” package, garnering immediate attacks from critics. The 142-page bill would create a new system of federal More...
Socialists in France partner with Hollywood for massive tax loopholes to film ‘Dunkirk’ ‘Jackie’ ‘MI6’ ‘Captain Underpants’
New tax breaks have brought a rush of Hollywood productions to France in the last year as the California taxation and corporate taxes in America drive a ton of big-budget overseas. Valerie Lepine, of the French More...
Bernie Sanders attacks Mike Mulvaney over defunding Planned Parenthood
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders grilled Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), the White House budget chief nominee, on Tuesday over his 2015 crusade to defund Planned Parenthood and his stance that Social Security is More...
Manufacturing in the US Set to Increase Thanks to Trump’s Presidency
In his ‘Contract With the American Voter’, new U.S. President Donald Trump has outlined what he intends to do in his recently begun first one hundred days in office in order to ‘make America great again’. More...
