By Nigel Jaquiss | Featured on Willamette Week In the feverishly-paced 35-day legislative session that began Feb. 1, few issues are more important to lawmakers than doing something to address Portland’s shortage of affordable housing.
Article By Paul Bonner | Featured on Journal of Accountancy The IRS’s tax return e-filing system was back in operation Thursday afternoon, a day after a computer hardware failure knocked out it and other IRS system services. According to the IRS, taxpayers do not need to take any additional steps or action due to the outage. […]
Article by Elizabeth Hayes | Featured on BizJournals | Image Credit: photo.ua / Shutterstock.com After a difficult two years, Moda Health CEO Robert Gootee has a plan to guide the company through the turbulent waters ahead. It’s a plan that could include layoffs among Moda’s 1,750-person workforce. The Lund Report on Wednesday reported that the company […]
Article by Andy Giegerich | Featured on BizJournals A slew of successful business operators will offer inside tips on building a bustling enterprise. The Portland Business Journal and Entrepreneurs Organization will present the EO Talks event on Feb. 4. The 90-minute event features presentations from four noted business operators renowned for their commercial savvy.
Article by Robert W. Wood | Featured on Forbes.com | Image Credit: Julie Clopper / Shutterstock.com The Powerball jackpot rose to $1.3 billion. These astounding numbers seem even more likely to brew big potential liabilities. Of course, the taxes on winning tickets are an unavoidable downside. Yet even after taxes, most people assume they will end up with a […]
By Nigel Jaquiss | Featured on Willamette Week Local governments usually pay legal settlements rather than collect them.
Article by Aswath Damodaran | Featured on Forbes.com | Featured Image Credit: pio3 / Shutterstock.com I saw the newest Star Wars movie recently and it brought back memories that stretch back almost four decades. Watching Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher on the screen reminded me of my age, though, once I learned how much Ford made for being in this […]
Article By Sally P. Schreiber, J.D. | Featured on CGMA Magazine In a further move to reduce the tax benefits of, and therefore the incentives for, corporate inversions, the U.S. tax agency, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), on Thursday announced additional rules designed to curtail the ability of an inverted company to access foreign subsidiaries’ […]
BY RICHARD COWAN AND SUSAN CORNWELL | Featured on Reuters Congressional negotiators on Tuesday wrapped up a sprawling deal to keep the U.S. government operating through next September, while setting new policies ranging from repealing a 40-year-old ban on oil exports to making many business tax breaks permanent, according to Republican lawmakers. House of Representatives Speaker […]
By Isler Northwest LLC December 30, 2015 On December 18, the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (the PATH Act) was signed by President Obama and became law. As is often the case at the end of the year, Congress had to pass legislation to extend popular tax breaks for the 2015 tax […]