Courtesy of Tax Foundation Key Findings The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would reform both individual income and corporate income taxes and would move the United States to a territorial system of business taxation. According to the Tax Foundation’s Taxes and Growth Model, the plan would significantly lower marginal tax rates and the cost of capital, which wo...

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Its early December 2017 as I write this with the New Year 2018 just a few weeks away.  So regardless of the year you just had, its good for us to prepare for 2018.    So from a business perspective here are some simple things you need to do:   Financial Preparation.  The year-end means you have to get everything ready for tax season and th...

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From its very inception, the European Union has depended on the alliance between France and Germany. The bloc’s predecessor, the European Economic Community, formed with the principal goal of binding the two countries together so closely that another war on the Continent would be impossible. And from the 1950s on, a tacit agreement underlay their ...

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We have been watching closely the events in Catalonia and the Spanish government’s response.  Having lived and worked in over 5 countries, we understand the implications far beyond this event.  BREXIT, the Scottish Referendum and many more issues around the globe highlight issues facing once ‘solid’ nations.   This article does a gre...

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Back to Basics: Signage Signs are so widespread we hardly notice them. That is until we’re looking for one and then we only note that in passing. We don’t realize their effect on us, which is one reason why they’re so effective. However, it is precisely because they are so commonplace that many merchants take them for granted. Obviously, most small busi...

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