Isler Northwest LLC proudly supported the KGW School Supply Drive this summer. The goal of the KGW School Supply Drive was to collect enough school supplies and cash to send 8,000 students in need back to school fully equipped to learn. All donations went to Schoolhouse Supplies, a local nonprofit organization that supports public education […]
Article By Eileen Reichenberg Sherr, CPA, CGMA | Featured on Journal of Accountancy Late Schedules K-1 have made it difficult, if not impossible, to file a timely, accurate return under the prior-law deadlines. This past summer Congress passed, and President Barack Obama subsequently signed, legislation that modified the due dates for several common tax returns. […]
BY MARCEL SCHWANTES Principal and founder, Leadership From the Core | Featured on Inc.com Lets leave intellectual theory behind. These are the nuts and bolts of great leadership, and you can apply it starting today. Back when I was doing the corporate grind, Bruce was the first boss (and my favorite to this day) that exposed me […]
Article by Enda Curran | Jeff Black | Rich Miller | Featured on Bloomberg Was Larry Summers right after all? Around the world, governments are planning fresh spending to boost growth and support wages, heeding the advice of the Harvard University economist and others who have argued that economies need the jolt as society ages and productivity sags. That’s signaling the […]
By Aoife White | Featured on Bloomberg Facebook Inc. officials failed to show up after getting seven summonses from the Internal Revenue Service demanding internal corporate records on one of its offshore tax strategies, according to an IRS court filing. U.S. authorities are examining Facebook’s federal income tax liability for the period ending Dec. 31, 2010 and […]
Blaming your customer for a sales slump doesn’t solve the problem. Instead, try looking at how your business can improve its sales process. BY AMANDA ABELLA | Author, ‘Make Money Your Honey’ @amandaabella | Featured on Inc.com As a business and branding coach for bloggers and small business owners, I’ve sometimes heard an interesting take on why their sales are […]
Article by Kathryn Vasel | Featured on CNN Money The government’s crackdown on anonymous real estate buyers hiding behind shell companies seems to be working. In January, the Treasury Department announced a temporary initiative that requires title insurance companies to identify all-cash buyers of certain high-end real estate in Manhattan and Miami. Now, it’s expanding the […]
Article by Sophia Yan | Featured on CNN Money China will add to the growing gloom hanging over the world economy when it posts its weakest growth in seven years on Friday. The world’s second-largest economy is expected to have expanded by 6.6% in the three months to the end of June, compared with the […]
Article Featured on KTVZ | TFoxFoto / Shutterstock.com New laws kicking in July 8th will give a slight boost to the paychecks of more than 100,000 low-income Oregonians while tourists and vacationers will have a little less spending money. The changes, enacted by the Legislature earlier this year, will almost double Oregon’s 1 percent tax on […]
By Chris Lehman | Featured on OPB A newly released report from the left-leaning Oregon Center for Public Policy has found that Oregon corporations today are paying a smaller portion of the state’s income and property taxes than they did 40 years ago. “Corporations used to contribute about 18.5 percent of all income taxes paid in Oregon. […]