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Bravo to TaxTalk

I want to thank you for your latest benefit TaxTalk. I have been a Member of the NASE since 1993. For my company, TaxTalk is the greatest benefit you have ever offered. I am able to ask tax questions, and within 24 hours I get a helpful and friendly response. This has really helped me. As a small-business owner, I want to understand everything about my tax return. TaxTalk is helping me gain this understanding. I have mentioned this service to friends who are small-business owners. They are interested in joining the NASE just for this benefit. Thanks again. It is appreciated.

Carmen Waters, President
Custom Manufacturing Inc.
NASE Member, Pennsylvania

Other NASE Members can also access this free benefit by visiting the NASE Web page at www.nase.org.

Employee Credit Help

Re: TaxTips column in the January/February 1997 issue. I would like additional information about the work opportunity credit. I want to know how I can be eligible for a credit of up to $2,100 per employee. What are the seven target groups, and how do I locate them?

Kwame Oduro
Studio 2001 Art and
Framing Gallery
NASE Member, Maryland

You're not the only NASE Member who expressed interest in knowing more about this tax-saving advantage for small businesses. In this issue of SEA, TaxTips columnist Eva Rosenberg helps you put the work opportunity credit into action. Read her column for this month.

Aiming at Archer

I just read the interview with Congressman Bill Archer of Texas (March/April 1997). His idea of cutting out the income tax and replacing it with a national sales tax would be great for all the wealthy people in this country, but a disaster for everyone else. The working poor would be especially hard hit because they would save very little in taxes but pay much more for goods and services. Small-business owners would see sales drop because their customers would be paying much more for services and products. What is needed in America is a progressive tax system, which we have. Our economy is booming under this system and has been for years.

My question is this: Are you going to present the other viewpoint on this issue? Will you have someone of equal stature present the opposite position?

Jim McLaughlin
NASE Member, Washington

Thanks for your opinion on the income tax issue. We seek an informed debate within our membership so that the NASE can represent your views. We have presented various legislator's proposals for income tax reform, such as the flat tax, unlimited savings allowance tax, consumption tax and the 10-percent tax plan. Keep reading as we continue our coverage in future issues.


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