How can you support small businesses during the holidays?
Sure, Target, Walmart and Amazon are a huge part of the American economy. But don’t be fooled, small businesses make up over 90% of all businesses in the U.S. It’s not an easy road for the independent entrepreneur. According to the Small Business Administration, small businesses have around a 50% survival rate. And the road […]
GP1 Blog – Background Checks during the COVID-19 pandemic
The process of hiring new employees may have slowed down during the unprecedented conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has most certainly not stopped. Background checks are an important part of a company’s hiring strategy during both normal and abnormal times. Diligently working from home during this crisis, the team at GroupOne Background Screening […]
Where We Go From Here: Using the OZ Act to Move Beyond Covid-19
Excerpted from Lexology by Sullivan & Worcester LLP How will the United States recover from the COVID-19 pandemic? At least part of the answer may be by making a few critically important tweaks to the Opportunity Zone tax incentives contained in Code Section 1400Z-2 (the “OZ Act”). The OZ Act was specially designed to promote […]