[Podcast] National Taxpayer Advocate Slams New 1099 Rules

Everybody else is complaining about those new reporting requirement and the burden they’re going to impose on small businesses. Why should Nina Olsen be any different?
Nina Olsen, in case you didn’t know, is the National Taxpayer Advocate over at the IRS. A few years ago, when she named the tax gap as the top taxpayer [...]

[July Poll] Are you an independent business?

Since it’s July, I thought I would work with the not-exactly-original-but-often-interesting theme of “independence.”
When it comes to running a microbusiness, independence can mean several different things.
Of course, it’s a pretty rare thing for a microbusiness to be a wholly owned subsidiary of anything at all, so that we are all independent in that sense.
It’s nice, [...]

[Podcast] Advocacy Chief Counsel Nominee Remains in Limbo

Sometimes, Washington still has the power to surprise me.
Take this debacle with the nomination of Dr. Winslow Sargeant. Personally, given that it is not required by statute for the Chief Counsel of the SBA Office of Advocacy to be a lawyer, Senator Olympia Snowe’s intransigence about it strikes me as being a bit unreasonable … [...]

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