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Tax caution: Don't invest out of allowances (rediff.com) Investments made by an employee out of the tax free allowances will cause any problem with the income tax authorities? us.rd.yahoo.com
Small businesses exempt from new increase in health care insurance requirements (Georgetown Record) Business groups won a partial victory when Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration decided to exempt companies with 50 or fewer full-time employees from a new health care coverage requirement. us.rd.yahoo.com
Kenai Peninsula voters mindful of taxes (Anchorage Daily News) HOMER -- The talk is of taxes as Kenai Peninsula voters prepare to go to the polls Tuesday to elect a borough mayor and decide whether to exempt food from sales taxes in winter. us.rd.yahoo.com
Small businesses exempt from new increase in health care insurance requirements (The MetroWest Daily News) Business groups won a partial victory when the Patrick administration decided to exempt companies with 50 or fewer full-time employees from a new health care coverage requirement. us.rd.yahoo.com
Spending down in '09 preliminary budget (Monticello Times) The 2009 preliminary budget and tax levy was discussed front and center at Monday’s city council meeting. During a budget meeting held late in August, council directed staff to develop a budget that would set the preliminary tax levy at $7,750,000. us.rd.yahoo.com
For area cities, bigger budgets not on the agenda (Denton Record-Chronicle) After years of steady, sometimes double-digit growth, budgets for many area cities stayed flat or even shrank this year. For a handful, this was the second year of shrinking bottom lines. us.rd.yahoo.com
Widow sues US Forest Service to obtain husband's records (Anchorage Daily News) JUNEAU -- The widow of a federal biologist who sued the U.S. Forest Service and won now wants to look at the records concerning her husband's firing. us.rd.yahoo.com
HEALTH PLANS (The State) A comparison of the health care proposals of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, compiled by the American Medical Association Health insurance changes Obama: Create a national insurance exchange to cover individuals through participating private health plans. Require insurers to justify above-average premium increases. McCain: End the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Issues: Health Care: An Urgent Need (CQPolitics.com via Yahoo! News) With one in six Americans younger than 65 lacking any form of health insurance and millions of others who have coverage struggling to pay medical bills, it's little wonder that a comprehensive overhaul of the health care system has emerged as a major issue in the presidential campaign. us.rd.yahoo.com
Mass. eases health assessment rules (Business Insurance) BOSTON—Massachusetts health care regulators last week agreed to ease and delay proposed regulations that would have subjected more employers to large financial assessments to help fund coverage for uninsured state residents. us.rd.yahoo.com
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