Estimates say the typical fraud incident costs a small business approximately $200,000. For many small businesses, this could be the difference between staying in business or bankruptcy.
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The Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy, which ended on June 30, has helped to create an environment of very low interest rates which is making it increasingly difficult to generate income from securities.
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Federal tax incentives can make going green financially appealing for real estate developers and owners of private buildings. Many of the financial incentives are tied to straight energy efficiency, not alternative energy sources.
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The Federal Reserve's current policy of maintaining low interest rates and purchasing securities via quantitative easing increases the difficulty of deriving income from securities with a reasonable amount of risk because these actions have increased asset prices.
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The process of fairly apportioning the income of business taxpayers is becoming a high-stakes challenge to balance a state's need to collect adequate revenue while allowing multistate corporations a stable business environment.
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As we begin 2011, we may be seeing the front edges of that back half of the storm associated with economic recovery. If so, the pressures on government finances should continue to increase. This is likely to pressure interest rates, tax rates and inflation.
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