The Senate voted Tuesday to give a tax break to new car buyers, setting aside bipartisan concerns over the size of an economic stimulus bill with a price tag approaching $900 billion. The vote was 71-26 to allow many car buyers to claim an income tax deduction for the cost of automobile sales taxes [...]

You can’t argue with free stuff that’s useful, especially if it has the potential to make a business run more efficiently. I’ve been on the lookout for ways that small businesses can cut costs, and some of the nation’s bigger companies recently have launched initiatives to help small firms better compete in this economy.
Intuit recently [...]

By STEPHEN FOSTER BLACK
As we move into a new tax filing season, in the midst of the most severe recession in three generations, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has never been more critical to the working people of our state.
Considered to be the most important federal anti-poverty program in the nation, the EITC is [...]