Taxes are painful, but there may be ways for businesses to beat the taxman.
Overlooked Deductions
You should take every single write-off you are due…what’s available may surprise you. Here’s a classic example: Small companies frequently miscategorize the cost of business-trip hotel stays as entertainment (50% deductible) rather than lodging (100%). The feds are only too happy [...]

It is obvious that Mr. Spilove loves Philadelphia. Wayne is not only a long time resident of Philadelphia, he has has been an active civic leader in the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for more than thirty-five years.
Under Wayne Spilove’s leadership, an extensive $100 million restoration project of Philadelphia’s City Hall [...]

KFC suppliers cram birds into huge waste-filled factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they can’t even walk, and often break their wings and legs. At slaughter, the birds’ throats are slit and they are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water—often while they are still conscious.
It would be illegal for KFC to [...]

A former Schuylkill Products Inc. vice president pleaded guilty Wednesday in Harrisburg federal court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government.
Dennis F. Campbell, 59, of Orwigsburg, faces up to five years in prison after admitting his part in what prosecutors say was a 14-year plan that allowed Cressona-based Schuylkill Products Inc. to pocket $121 million. [...]

Today Yahoo! Inc. rejected Microsoft Corp.’s bid of $44.6 billion saying the it “substantially undervalues” Yahoo.
To Yahoo! Inc.’s co-founder, Jerry Yang, it comes down to pride and not money. Yang has made it through the dot-com bust, it’s failure in challenging EBay Inc. in the online auction business, and it’s challenge to Google in [...]

I have always had a love for architecture, and the preservation of historic character of buildings. One of my favorite cities is Philadelphia. The City of Philadelphia features outstanding examples of every important style and period of architecture.
I like the 19th century structures found in the Rittenhouse Square area, on the southwest [...]

An ethical anlysis by ethicsinbusiness.net: The Organization and the People in It of Hoop Dreams:
1.Were Marianne Stanley and George Raveling doing work of comparable value?
Yes, I do believe that Marianne and George were doing work of the same comparable value. Both coaches were coaching the same amount of games each season, and both were [...]

Fake Louis Vuitton, Coach, Burberry, Dooney & Bourke…the list goes on.Designers are frustrated by seeing their ideas copied, mass produced, and sold at a fraction of the price.
Here’s the facts…currently if an item is pretending to be an original designer item (i.e. it a counterfeit) then it is illegal. If the item is marketed [...]

I often question how this world got to the point that it is at now… and I am not talking about evolution or anything like that.
I question how people became so crooked, and not even just that, but that it has also become accepted to some degree. I question how people who have money [...]

Now, Chinese clothes are being called into question after two children were burned when their nightclothes caught fire.
A recall has been ordered, and an investigation is in progress after scientist discovered Chinese clothing containing levels of formaldehyde 900 times higher than what is considered safe.
This is the first time that the safety of Chinese clothes [...]