by Tax Watchdog | Jun 30, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Legislative budget trimming didn’t make a dent in Utah school spending in 2002, according to a report just released by the Utah Taxpayers Association. Utah’s total spending per student for the year that ended June 2002 increased 8.2% from $5,762...
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 23, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson We’ve all heard urban legends from time to time. These are sensational stories which are purported to be true, but contain little truth. They are often used to get people upset. It was once popular to spread urban legends through chain letters....
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 9, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Two weeks ago I reported in this column that Utah ranks 27th among the fifty states and the District of Columbia in the Seventh Annual Small Business Survival Index. The SBSI ranks the fifty states and District of Columbia using 20 indicators...
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 2, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson VICTORY FOR TAXPAYERS! According to the Treasury Department, there have been 19 significant federal tax cuts since the end of World War II. Three of them, including the $350 billion tax relief package signed last week, were enacted under the...
by Tax Watchdog | May 26, 2003 | 2003 Enterprise Articles
by Howard Stephenson Utah ranks 27th among the fifty states and District of Columbia for small business survivability, according to the Small Business Survival Committee (SBSC); a non-profit small business advocacy group with more than 70,000 members nationally. The...