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Apple in Ireland This week Apple has taken a blow from the European Commission as the EU demands Apple pay their withstanding taxes to Ireland to the tune of about 14.5 billion US dollars. While [...]

Competitive Differentiation We are all beyond aware of the rapidity of innovation today. In less than twenty years we have seen the technological dreams of Sci-Fi favorites come to life. Just [...]

Is your manufacturing company one of the many in the United States that is experiencing a rapid increase of exported goods?  Exporting creates an opportunity to use a tax savings strategy by [...]

On September 10, 2015, the Food and Drug Administration released the final preventive controls rules to implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The two new food safety rules aim [...]

Indeed, the slowing global economy, a still-cautious consumer, rising interest rates, a stronger dollar, and tax and regulatory uncertainty could each pose downside risks to U.S. economic growth. [...]

The R&D tax credit, worth approximately $7 billion annually in recent years, saw 17,700 corporations claim $6.6 billion in R&D Tax Credits on their tax returns in 2005 alone. Indeed, the [...]

In December 2015, the federal R&D tax credit was made permanent by The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (“PATH” Act). Apart from instilling confidence in US businesses to [...]

In November 2015, the IRS issued a private letter ruling circumstantiating that passthrough entities may claim unused credits on a carryforward basis. Nonetheless, the IRS also recently published [...]

Undeniably, the manufacturing sector has a large footprint in the U.S. economy. It employed 12.0 million workers in 2013, equating to 8.8 percent of total U.S. employment. In particular, the [...]

Not surprisingly, 60 percent of small-business owners say administrative burdens, like paperwork and confusing rules, are the worst part of filing — even more so than the financial cost of taxes, [...]