Daily Archives: June 29, 2010

Five Top Tech Trends in 60 Seconds

We’ve been asking leading experts in the profession: What do you see as the top tech trends for accounting firms?

Byron Patrick, a leading edge CPA.CITP, and CEO of Simplified Innovations Inc.,  a hosted services provider, weighs in:

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Doing the Job the Fed Won’t Do

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Interim Guidance on “Grandfathered Health Plans” Under the Affordable Care Act

IRS has issued interim final regs that indicate the extent that a group health plan or health insurance coverage is a grandfathered health plan, and the extent that a grandfathered health plan is subject to the Public Health Service Act

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Nine Tips on the 10 Percent Tax on Tanning Services

Starting July 1, 2010, many businesses offering tanning services must collect a 10 percent excise tax on the tanning services they provide. This excise tax requirement is part of the Affordable Care Act that was enacted in March 2010.

Here…

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Barney Fife and the Preamble to the Constitution

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46 State Governments Facing Greek-Style Deficits

Californians don’t see much evidence that the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression is coming to an end.

Unemployment was 12.4 percent in May, 2.7 percentage points higher than the national rate. Lawmakers gridlocked over how to close a…

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GASLAND Trailer 2010 – Natural Gas

GASLAND – (2010) Directed by Josh Fox. Winner of Special Jury Prize – Best US Documentary Feature – Sundance 2010. Screening at Cannes 2010.

It is happening all across America and now in Europe and Africa as well – rural…

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Interest Rates Remain the Same for the Third Quarter of 2010

The IRS announced that interest rates for the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2010, will remain unchanged from the previous quarter. The rates will be:

  • Four (4) percent for overpayments [three (3) percent in the case of a corporation];

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The Biggest Earmark is Empire

Before they can be taken serious in their critique of government spending, Tea Partiers, Republicans and conservatives in general must finally address America’s costly foreign policy.

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