Every news story about the coming "fiscal cliff" talks about what the "real" problem is. The consensus being, that American companies aren't making decisions on employment or investment because they don't know what is going to happen... They are putting off decisions until they see what Congress will do. The truth isn't quite that straight forward...I caught…
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Reading Mark Bittman's blog this morning I saw this lead-in to a link I had to follow: Here’s the thing. A lot of stuff isn’t directly about food, but TB – that’s tuberculosis – is becoming, has become, antibiotic-resistant. And a lot of antibiotic resistance may be because there are…
General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2…
I tossed and turned in bed last night in a perfect storm of tax related muses...nightmares...planning. I had a meeting with a CPA yesterday. I had arranged the meeting to try to get a handle on my tax plan for next year. This is the year I finally bury my…