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U.S. Senate Committee on Finance


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Baucus Bill Would Not Obligate Businesses to Offer Insurance

Companies with more than 50 employees that did not provide coverage would be expected to reimburse the government.  Read more

Battle Lines Drawn Over Estate Tax

During Senate floor debate, Republicans made their case for permanent repeal, while Democrats called the move 'unconscionable.'  Read more

Bills, Bills, Bills

The well-prepared Washington business lobbyist always keeps a couple of new tax cuts or deregulatory schemes in his suit pocket just in case a selling opp...  Read more

David Halbertsam quote

Quote on the rise of managers in American business from 'The Fifties' by David Halberstam.  Read more

Polishing The Apple

Federal legislation might have given computer companies a tax break for giving equipment to schools. But the bill stirred up its share of controversy.  Read more

The Tax Cut Debate: Which Bill Has The Benefits?

To illustrate the different effects of current law, the Administration-backed Senate Finance Committee tax bill, and the bill drafted by Democrat members ...  Read more

Storming the Hill

Now that the Republicans are in command, the small-business lobby hopes this new congressional session will bring it more victories than losses. Here's the v...  Read more

Lessons from Argentina: Tax Holidays

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Cash And Carry

Wow, there's so much to talk about when the conversation turns, as it does periodically, to taxing the "carried interest" that fund managers collect on th...  Read more

Whodunit

The Senate Finance Committee addresses some of the problems created by Section 89 of the tax code.  Read more

Esop's Rising Stock

What's behind the spread of employee stock ownership plans.  Read more

Calculating Startup Costs; Obama's Small-Biz PItch

How to calculate startup costs. The Wall Street Journal takes a page (literal...  Read more

Congress Extends Popular Middle Class and Business Tax Breaks

September 24, 2004 -- With the presidential election looming, a joint House-Senate committee delivered President Bush an early gift on Th...  Read more

Snowe Job

The Senate reconsiders a bid to draw capital to small companies.  Read more

Tim Geithner's Innocent Mistakes

"These were careless mistakes," the man who would be President Obama's Treasury Secretary Read more

The Tax Man Cometh

IRS is keeping a close eye on entrepreneurs . With Tax Day looming, a quick warning that entrepreneurs might want to be Read more

Small Businesses Fight Offshore Tax Havens

Multinational companies use tax havens to avoid $37 billion in taxes -- money that could be spent on a small business lending fund.  Read more

The Small Biz Tax Gap

Are we a nation of tax cheats? Duh. But if a recent report by the Government Accountability Office ("the investigating arm of Congress") is to be believed...  Read more

Hanging Tough With Reagan On Taxes

Small business deal makers had to choose between political loyalty to the Administration and attractive offers from Democrats. They made a split decision.  Read more

EU Sanctions Hurting Businesses

April 2004 --The European Union (EU) has begun imposing sanctions against the U.S., and manufacturing companies with business overseas are...  Read more

Senators Tell -- Ahem, Ask -- IRS To Ease Up On Small Biz

A bipartisan quartet of leading Congressmen and Senators has called on the IRS to stop collecting stiff penalties from small firms investing in illegal ta...  Read more

Debating a Small Business Bailout; SpaceX Lifts Off

Possible bailout for small business lender? As the W...  Read more

The Birth Of Esops;

ESOPs are testimony to the power of ideas -- the ideas, in this case, of an iconoclastic economist named Louis O. Kelso. Coming of age in Depression-era ...  Read more

Enterprise Zones: What's Everyone Arguing About?

You would think that any proposal that benefits business, the cities, and the minorities would be a shoo-in.  Read more

Now for the Good News

Inc.'s finance editor explains why CEOs should take advantage of current 401(K) programs.  Read more

Behind The Flat-tax Debate

This year's tax battle in Congress could be a dress rehearsal for 1988.  Read more

How Taxes Should Be Cut

If the President and Congress really want to stimulate the economy, they will help small business.  Read more

The 1981 Tax Cut: A Tilt To Big Business?

President Reagan's tax reform plans still leave small business at a disadvantage.  Read more

When Sbane Talks, People Listen

The Smaller Business Association of New England commands more influence, both at home and in Washington, than its modest size suggests.  Read more

The Ultimate Employee Buy-in

Sell the company to your employees? It's a great idea--both for you and for the business you're leaving behind.  Read more