Effective Jan. 1, 2024, the following changes to the jurisdictional amounts for California state courts apply: > Small claims: Maximum claim increased from $10,000 to $12,500; > ...
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Federal, state, and local governments are announcing economic aid and loan programs to assist small businesses impacted by COVID-19 (coronavirus). These include: U.S. Federal government (IRS):...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2020/03/small-business-loans-coronavirus-covid19.html
Updating my 10-year old post, How to Avoid an IRS Tax Audit: Incorporate Your Small Business , the IRS' own most recently available data (for tax year 2017), show that, for a taxpayer with $100,0...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2019/09/avoid-tax-audits-incorporting-business.html
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's Wayfair decision, starting 2019, California will require remote sellers with no presence in the state to register and collect and pay over to the state sal...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2019/01/wayfair-sales-use-tax-out-of-state.html
The recently created California Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) has issued a ruling in the Satview case against the Franchise Tax Board (FTB)'s position that a 25% member of a California limited liab...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2018/12/ftb-out-of-state-llc-tax.html
The California Supreme Court has made an important change to employment classification law for California employers, that will make it more difficult for companies to appropriately classify worke...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2018/06/employee-classification-abc-standard.html
The Supreme Court has resolved a conflict amongst the U.S. Federal Circuit Courts, and once again the Ninth Circuit has been overruled. This time it was for SCOTUS to confirm that class action wa...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2018/05/employee-arbitration-class-action-waiver.html
Jonas M. Grant was recently quoted as a California corporate law subject matter expert in an article in an online journal covering Los Angeles real estate news: > corporation ... continues...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2017/12/suspended-corporation.html
LegalZoom offers trademark filing services, so naturally, when it comes to its own trademarks used to promote this and other of its online, non-attorney document preparation services, it trusts t...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2017/05/trademark-registration-legalzoom.html
Why Do TV Networks Have 'No Unsoliciated Materials' Policies? One reason: > LAWSUITS. Networks do not want to get sued because you thought they > stole your idea. When creato...
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ScreenwritingU is offering a free teleconference on a topic many new screenwriters have lots of questions about - how to land an agent. Sign up here .
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Tips for Starting a Side Business from balance.com include: > onsider running your business as a part-time operation alongside > your current job... > > understand and foll...
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> Getting representation from an agent or manager in Hollywood is not > easy. You have to find someone who believes in you and your work, > and you need to believe t...
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Some of my favorite quotes of interest to entrepreneurs and small business people from a collection of 20 Small Business Quotes ("20 Small Business Quotes That Will Inspire You", about.com, Marc...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2016/07/inspirational-quotes-for-entrepreneurs_65.html
Today, a client launched a new website - www.recursor.tv - "The Future Reflected" - dedicated to original and aggregated science fiction videos and web series. Please visit and enjoy!
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2016/06/client-scifi-website.html
Two-thirds of California's overall tax revenue comes from personal income taxes, with the top fifth of income earners paying 90% - and the top one percent paying 45% - of these taxes. Source: T...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2016/04/california-taxes-income-tax.html
A recent survey of 15,000 California lawyers uncovered the following statistics concerning the Los Angeles and San Francisco legal markets and the lawyers who work there: > New business grow...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2016/04/los-angeles-california-attorney-hourly.html
California has implemented legislation that is slated to increase the state minimum wage to $10.50 for larger employers on January 1, 2017, with employers of 25 or less employees following behind...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2016/04/2016-california-minimum-wage-increase.html
As part of her campaign, Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton has called for increasing the estate tax rate and the number of estates the tax would apply to. Specifically, her prop...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2016/02/hillay-clinton-calls-for-estate-tax.html
New York "business divorce" lawyer Peter Mahler blogs about his experiences involving two members of a New York limited liability company who relied on LegalZoom to draft their LLC's operating a...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2015/06/form-operating-agreements-for-llcs-not.html
The California Labor Commissioner has determined than a driver for Uber was misclassified as an independent contractor rather than as an employee. The decision is under appeal and will not the...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2015/06/california-independent-contractor.html
California's many new laws for 2015 include some of interest to employers, including local minimum wage increases in Richmond , San Jose , and other California cities and mandatory paid sick le...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-california-laws-for-2015.html
In the November 2014 elections, voters in the Northern California cities of San Francisco and Oakland have approved local increases to the minimum wage, that will apply to employees working withi...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2014/11/california-local-minimum-wage-increases.html
Following an increase in the California state minimum wage (with another coming in 2016), Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed raising the City's minimum wage by steps to $13.25 by 2017....
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2014/09/city-los-angeles-minimum-wage-garcetti.html
A good example of why it's often not a good idea to leave an inheritance outright to a young child, and better to instead consider an ongoing trust, staggered and/or contingent distribution sched...
http://californiabusinesslaw.blogspot.com/2014/09/leave-inheritance-children-estate.html