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Exemption on Manufacturing Equipment

Regulation 1525.4 allows businesses in manufacturing to purchase manufacturing equipment at reduced sales and use tax rate for purchases occurring on or after 7/01/14. The partial exemption was 4.185% for the period of 7/01/14 to 12/31/16 and then adjusted to 3.9375% on 1/01/17 through the end of the program. The exemption will be taken at

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Salary History Legislation

Image by James Cridland via Flickr.   With the passage of AB 168 into law, California joins Delaware, Oregon, Massachusetts, and New York and the City of San Francisco prohibiting employers from asking about a job applicant’s salary history when deciding to offer a job or how much to pay. The new law applies to

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Salary History Legislation

Image by James Cridland via Flickr.   With the passage of AB 168 into law, California joins Delaware, Oregon, Massachusetts, and New York and the City of San Francisco prohibiting employers from asking about a job applicant’s salary history when deciding to offer a job or how much to pay. The new law applies to

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New Packaging Regulation

In September 2016, Governor Brown signed SB 1383, establishing targets to achieve a 50 percent reduction in disposed organic waste by 2020 and a 75 percent reduction by 2025. CalRecycle has been tasked with developing a plan that focuses on areas and strategies to help achieve these goals. At first step, CalRecycle is targeting “priority

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Nine Brilliant Holiday Marketing Strategies

If you are finding yourself uninspired or worse, scrambling, as the holidays are fast approaching, don’t fret. Here are nine creative and simple ways to expand your business and boost sales this year. 1) Reach out to Current Customers Send a greeting card to let your customers know you care. It’s optional to include a

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Trump’s New Orders and the Effect on Group Markets

After months of failed efforts by Congressional Republicans to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, President Trump has stepped in with two sweeping changes that will likely reverberate throughout the health insurance system. The main order he issued immediately eliminates subsidies that are paid to health insurers that participate in government-run exchanges to reduce deductibles and

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Trump’s New Orders and the Effect on Group Markets

After months of failed efforts by Congressional Republicans to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, President Trump has stepped in with two sweeping changes that will likely reverberate throughout the health insurance system. The main order he issued immediately eliminates subsidies that are paid to health insurers that participate in government-run exchanges to reduce deductibles and

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Pallet Safety Key to Preventing Many Injuries

Pallet injuries are very common in industrial and warehouse settings as people often do not store them correctly or use them as stepping stools. This item outlines tips for pallet safety. If you have a warehouse and store products on pallets, you may not be aware that they present one of the most common workplace

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Connecting to Your Customers with Digital Printing

Technology is the bridge that connects you to your customers. And with printing and labeling, the industry still remains relatively generic. That’s why Rafi Albo, owner of SEGMARKETING demonstrated how his company is bringing physical packaging into the digital world and the role that digital printing plays in that equation at the third annual Digital

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Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy

There is a fundamental disconnect between the wealth of digital data available to us and the physical world in which we apply it. While reality is three-dimensional, the rich data we now have to inform our decisions and actions remains trapped on two-dimensional pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds limits

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