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Gretna Middle School welcomes the New Orleans Saints
Source: blog.nola.com - Nov 20, 2012 By Shelita Dalton, Terrytown Columnist The front entrance of Grenta Middle School recently transformed into a football pep rally. Students and cheerleaders screamed, shouted and displayed handmade... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Google and New Orleans college students launch training for small business owners seeking to build their web presence
Source: nola.com - Nov 15, 2012 By Mark Waller, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Google has launched a campaign to help New Orleans area small businesses build their presence on the Internet with help from university students at... Read more > Category: General Business |
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'Fiscal cliff' will hit most taxpayers in the United States
Source: nydailynews.com - Nov 15, 2012 Spending cuts will also hit doctors who accept Medicare, people who get unemployment aid, defense contractors, air traffic controllers, national park rangers and companies that do research and... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Obama says tax hike will have to come first in
Source: news.yahoo.com - Nov 15, 2012 By Andy Sullivan | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that Republicans would have to agree to raise taxes on the wealthy as the first step in a budget deal... Read more > Category: General Business |
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New York State Court Rules Lap Dancing Is Taxable
Source: tax-news.com - Nov 9, 2012 by Leroy Baker, Tax-News.com, New York 29 October 2012 The State of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeal, has decided, but only by a 4-3 majority, that the admission charges and private... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Stocks trending higher Tuesday in early trading on Wall Street as Americans head to the polls
Source: nola.com - Nov 6, 2012 By The Associated Press on November 06, 2012 at 8:48 AM, updated November 06, 2012 at 8:58 AM NEW YORK -- Stocks are heading higher in early trading on Wall Street as Americans lined up to cast... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Small business strategies for globalization and the Internet to be featured in UNO conference on Thursday
Source: nola.com - Nov 6, 2012 A conference for small business owners at the University of New Orleans on Thursday will cover topics including Internet practices for small businesses, taking businesses global and tax strategies.... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Louisiana 6th in national business climate ranking
Source: businessreport.com - Nov 2, 2012 Published Oct 19, 2012 at 3:00 pm (Updated Oct 19, 2012) Louisiana has the sixth-most business-friendly climate in the nation, according to Area Development magazine's "2012 Top States for Doing... Read more > Category: General Business |
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George Lucas’s Jedi estate planning ‘Star Wars’ creator’s deal with Disney is a savvy move
Source: marketwatch.com - Nov 2, 2012 In the “Empire Strike Back,” Yoda admonishes Luke Skywalker for spending his life dreaming of the future, “never his mind on where he was … what he was doing.” But at 68, George Lucas,... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Looming Tax Hike Motivates Owners to Sell
Source: online.wsj.com - Nov 2, 2012 By JOHN D. MCKINNON A looming increase in the capital-gains tax rate next year is fueling sales of some privately-held businesses. Many business owners—mostly founders who could gain a lot from... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Halloween has become big business
Source: wwl.com - Oct 31, 2012 A record 170 million people plan to celebrate Halloween this year with spending up to an expected new all time high of $8 billion dollars according to the National Retail Federation's 2012... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Year-End Tax Planning Before The Fiscal Cliff
Source: forbes.com - Oct 31, 2012 Robert A. Green, CPA, Contributor Tax planning is very tricky this year with the fiscal cliff. Most people hope Congress and President Obama will act soon — after the November election and... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Analysis: Americans to face tougher 2013 on rising prices, taxes
Source: reuters.com - Oct 31, 2012 By Edward Krudy NEW YORK | Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:25am EDT (Reuters) - Consumers will have to dig deeper into their pockets next year to pay for costlier healthcare, more expensive grocery bills and... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Older Americans Against Payroll Tax Cut Extension
Source: tax-news.com - Oct 22, 2012 by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com 22 October 2012 Barry Rand, chief executive officer of AARP, the non-profit, non-partisan organization for the over-fifties, with over 37m members, has sent a letter... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Study shows Mississippians smoking less since 2009 tax increase
Source: blog.gulflive.com - Oct 22, 2012 By The Associated Press on October 22, 2012 at 8:54 AM, updated October 22, 2012 at 8:57 AM JACKSON, Mississippi -- Higher cigarette taxes may be helping to drive down smoking in Mississippi.... Read more > Category: General Business |
