Do You Know the Secrets to Triggering Your Customer’s “Buy” Buttons?

In your spare time, maybe on the weekends, do you sit and wonder how the brain works and how you can use your knowledge of the brain to increase your sales? Probably not, but according to authors Patrick Renvoisé and Christophe Morin, maybe you should.

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Sweet – very sweet – box.net & Google apps

Box.net goes Google: platform Integration and real-time collaboration = Editors note: As part of our Going Google Everywhere series, today’s guest blogger is Jen Grant, VP of Marketing at Box.net, a Palo Alto-based start-up that helps businesses collaborate, share, and manage all their content online. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on [...]

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IRS issues Notice 2010-60 regarding foreign financial information reporting under FATCA

IRS this weekend issued highly anticipated guidance regarding the reporting by foreign financial institutions. This reporting is becoming effective for payments made after December 31, 2012. The purpose of the preliminary guidance is to ensure that affected persons have time to implement the systems and processes necessary to comply fully with the new withholding, documentation [...]

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Protect Yourself – Part 2

Identity theft protection tips for those using hard copy checks:

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IRS Will Not Rule on Change of Accounting Method From One Being Proposed in Audit

In emailed advice (201033038), the Chief Counsel’s office refused to allow an automatic change of accounting method request of a taxpayer to be processed under the following fact pattern.

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More Guidance Issued on Special 5 Year Net Operating Loss Rules

In Notice 2010-58 the IRS issued additional guidance in the form of questions and answers relating to net operating loss elections under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and the Worker, Homeowner and Business Assistance Act of 2009 (WHBAA).  The guidance was issued to address certain issues that have arisen as taxpayers [...]

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How the fight over tax breaks affects your bottom line

From The Washington Post Tax cuts enacted under former president George W. Bush are set to expire at year’s end, and lawmakers are battling over whether to extend them before the November elections. Most Republicans want to extend all of the cuts, saying that any increase in taxes will hold back the economic recovery. President [...]

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Proposed Revisions to Circular 230 to Establish Registered Return Preparers, Mandate for Oversight by Chief Tax Practitioner in Firm and Penalty for Failing to Electronic File Mandated Returns

The IRS has issued revised proposed regulations (NPRM REG-138637-7) under Circular 230 to accomplish a number of goals. First, the regulations revise the proposed return signing standards under §10.34 to bring them into line with revisions to IRC §6694. Second, the changes would broaden Circular 230 to cover the new category of “registered tax return [...]

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Newly enacted law provides welcome relief to modify the limitation period in HIRE Act

IRC 6501(c)(8) provides an exception to the normal three-year period of limitations for assessments if the taxpayer fails to provide complete foreign transaction reporting as specified in that provision. HIRE Act, which was enacted on March 18, 2010, added additional foreign information items that will extend the assessment period and provided that only the extended [...]

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Top 10 Investor Traps for 2010

From the The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA): WASHINGTON (August 3, 2010) – The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) today released its annual list of traps that cautious investors should avoid when seeking to jump-start their investment portfolios as the impact of the financial crisis and increased market volatility continue to reverberate along [...]

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