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Payroll Taxes Are Up in 2014, and That Means Your Paycheck Just Got Smaller.

A winter storm of controversy churned through the normally placid uplands of professional philanthropy this week, pitting academic vs. academic and creating a running battle over just how much Americans gave away to char...

Serial entrepreneur Constantin Bisanz wants to bring the "health coach" perks that Hollywood stars have to a wider market. Step one: Powdered green juice.

Editor's Note: Jenny Bowen, founder and CEO of Half the Sky, is the author of Wish You Happy Forever, which chronicles her personal and professional journey to transform Chinese orphanages--and the lives of the neglecte...

Now that the New Year has begun, my phone calls have increased. Many involve what I consider "taxpayer's remorse." Business owners, in particular, have come to realize they missed the opportunity for some 2013 tax saving...

About three months after skewering a competitor on its acquisition-spear, ticket search firm SeatGeek is seeing a 10% jump in traffic and revenue. The company had acquired and shut down a chief rival, FanSnap, in a deal ...

Each of the nine movies nominated for this year's Oscar for best film may already have taken home a pile of tax subsidies. Seven brought back state goodies from the U.S. and two got cash for their work in the U.K.

Davos is the place to be for the world's top executives and political figures this week but what happens if you're not deemed important enough to get in? Here's my tale from nine years ago.

The University of Notre Dame announced today that it has struck a new 10-year agreement with the sports apparel company, Under Armour, which will become the official outfitter of the school?s 26 varsity athletics program...

We can learn a lot from the success of Silicon Valley, but startups everywhere else also need to be themselves.

Bill Grundfest, Founder of the Comedy Cellar, Golden Globe winner and three time Emmy nominee, recently spoke to an audience of entrepreneurial students as part of UC Santa Barbara's Distinguished Lecture Series.

Issue.  The determination of who is a surviving spouse?s ?last deceased spouse? is integral to computing the DSUE amount available to such surviving spouse. Thus, one issue addressed by the temporary portability regulat...

Is the ?CInO? title in Your Future? Should it be?

As tax advisors, the client problems that plague our daily existence can be divided into two categories. First are those situations when we recognize that a tax issue exists and are merely left with the challenge of cha...

Part of the job of the national taxpayer advocate is to be our "voice at the IRS" and to report to Congress annually, identifying problems and recommending solutions. Each year the report lists "the most serious problems...

If you feel like there's a lot more you could be doing or learning but you just don't have the time, I have the solution. I call it "microfixing" - it is a highly addictive learning discipline that merges into most profe...

Dear Business Owner,

Privately owned gas stations historically have some of the thinnest profit margins in retailing, but in 2013 they experienced their strongest margins in years, according to preliminary data from Sageworks, a financial in...

Life After "The Everything Store"

In 2014, women leaders rose to the top in many different industries.  Healthcare, cars manufacturing, advertising and even finance all recently added women to major leadership roles. Marissa Mayer may have recently been...

SEO is unsexy and difficult. So, is it really the right strategy for startups?

Starting a new business in this economy may be tough, but it's not impossible. We broke down the top 7 things you should consider and prepare before you jump into launching your startup.