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What eCommerce Startups Need to Know About Online Sales Tax

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Follow internet business tax laws to stay compliant with applicable government agencies, like the IRS and your state. These are the taxes you withhold from an employee’s gross wages, and you make FICA contributions based on employee wages. Basically, your business is the middle-man between consumers and the government.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

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Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

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Statutory workers’ compensation laws are particular to each state, but in general, businesses having employees that are not large enough to self-insure must carry workers’ comp insurance. The Number of Employees You Have Matters. In most states, if you have just one employee you must carry workers’ compensation insurance.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. California.

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How to Start a Travel Agency

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In California, Washington, Hawaii, Iowa, and Florida, you’ll need a Seller of Travel license. Further, we had a very simple organization structure, so ease of governance and compliance drove our choice of corporate structure.”. Step 6: Choose a location and hire employees. How many employees will you need to hire?

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting. We took $2.3 Sound familiar?