At a Christmas party over the weekend, I had an extended conversation with my wife’s cousin about his position with a major technology contractor. His firm holds billion-dollar contracts with the U.S. government and has dealt on some level with most industry leading companies. He manages employees around the country and is about as wired […]

Latin immigrants in the United States, both legal and illegal, are leaving the country or moving around within the U.S. in increasing numbers of late, and it has nothing to do with border patrols, fence-building and immigration legislation. Asked why they’re leaving, many note that the type of available work that made the U.S. so […]

I’ve been filing 1099s for our sub-contractors since 1998 and I inevitably wait until the last minute to get them out. Typically, 1099s are due to contractors by the end of January in order to allow them time to have them submitted with their personal income taxes by April 15. Fortunately, QuickBooks makes the process […]