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New Use Tax Filing Rule for Calif. Businesses
By Robin Enos | Last updated on
When does a service business located in California have to register with the California Board of Equalization, and start filing yearly returns declaring (and...
Calif. Sales Tax Cut 1 Percent on July 1
By Cynthia Hsu, Esq. | Last updated on
The California sales tax rate will be slashed 1% across the state on July 1st. That is, unless the legislators pass another new sales tax law that will extend...
Airport Skycaps Lose Appeal Over Tips
By Cynthia Hsu, Esq. | Last updated on
Federal preemption has caused a group of American Airlines skycaps to lose their case on lost tips. The decision was made when the 1st Circuit found that the...
Paid Vacation Laws: No Legal Right to Time Off
By Cynthia Hsu, Esq. | Last updated on
Compared to the rest of the world, Americans generally receive a pitifully low amount of paid vacation. Americans seem to want to live a life of work, based on...
Government Restaurant Loans Are Now Less Risky
By Robin Enos | Last updated on
You always heard restaurants carried a really high risk of failure, right? So why would restaurant loans have such a low default rate? Why would...
How Do Right To Work Laws Work?
By Stephanie Rabiner, Esq. | Last updated on
As of this moment, 22 states and the District of Columbia have in place right to work statutes--a subset of union law that preserves the choice of workers to...