Small firms’ anger at gains tax fiasco
Times Online - BRITAIN’s small businesses have reacted with a mixture of relief, disbelief and disappointment after the chancellor made a u-turn in his plans for capital-gains tax. Last October Alistair Darling announced that he was scrapping business asset taper
Kerry Stimulus Plan Targets Small Business
New York Times - Senator John Kerry (D- Mass.) this week proposed a Senate economic stimulus package that would target tax incentives for small businesses, reduce fees on loans and double funding for microloans. The proposed bill will increase the amount small
Riding the ups and downs
News.com.au - Small business owners who use an SMSF to purchase property. * People with large super balances who use advisers to set up and manage an SMSF. * People who just want to do it all on their own. People who borrowed to take advantage of last year’s tax-free
Police chief’s project kills nearby small business
Orlando Sentinel - LAKE HELEN - Business was brisk at Ed and Norma Blackman’s coffee shop until an unlikely rival — the government — brewed up unexpected competition for the town’s java junkies. The Blackmans shuttered the business they opened in 2005 — the Lake
How the Taiwanese government is assisting SMEs in ICT
National - Their efforts have successfully encouraged tens of thousands of small business owners to make the small e-step, allowing them to begin experiencing the power of e-commerce in creating business opportunities. From its inception in
Sleepworking, says that mean business, handheld headaches
Register-Guard - The Staples National Small Business Survey also found that 72 percent of respondents make business calls while driving and almost 40 percent state they get their best ideas behind the wheel. CEOs stick by Texas, Nevada California and New York are rated
LABOR DISPUTE DIVIDES RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY
San Francisco Gate - Small Business Center : A new resource for small businesses. Get expert advice, forms and more. SFGate Technology : It’s a high-tech world - - we just plug you into it Labor organizing can be tense under the best of circumstances, but in bucolic
BRIEF: About This Series: Building a Business
Blackenterprise.com - Small Business Administration. This day, we begin to follow two of the state’s newest entrepreneurs. Both are smart, focused and friendly, but that’s where the similarities end. —– To see more of the Detroit Free Press, or to subscribe to the
The Types of Business Loans
HULIQ.com - Commercial and business loans are very vital to start a small business. Begin up companies need to know the different types of business loans to understand the ideal ways they have the ability to be used to advance a business project. The idea of owning your own
The woman who broke the mould at the LSE
Times On the internet - The share price has risen nearly tenfold and she has amassed a personal small fortune from share purchases and options that Business tools
Lenovo enters the server business
Computerworld Singapore - Lenovo announced its intent to jump into the server business by licensing x86 server technology from IBM, helping extend its product offerings to small and medium-sized businesses. Under the agreement, Lenovo will manufacture one- and two-way x86
Non-IT ideas good for small businesses
Computerworld - Of course, if you’re a small business without a “proper” IT department, this might seem funny. You’re actually the envy of Carr in some ways, since business decisions drive each technology buy and process. He’s worried that when you get larger
House prices up 2.3 percent
International Herald Tribune - be purchasers continues to put downward pressure on home prices even though the scale of the recent falls is relatively small Mizuho will form business ties with top Say Bank of India, the latest global move by a Japanese lender.
FM radio expansion hits small-town hurdle
Business Standard - But experts have cast a doubt on the success of the third phase as almost 80 per cent of the proposed 680 FM stations fall in very small towns where the FM radio business looks non-viable. “Nearly 190 of the proposed cities are so small that a
Market experts wary but eager
Los Angeles Times - Small Business » Technology » Video Games » Work & Careers Portfolio managers may be dizzy after the recent gymnastics in a market that’s had an unhappy new year. That hasn’t
Managers prompt business risks by neglecting key on-the-job training
Irish Examiner - SUBSTANTIAL numbers of managers of Irish-owned companies are neglecting the key area of on-the-job training, putting their businesses at serious risk in the process. These findings are detailed in a new report from the Small Firms Association
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