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Managing payroll can be a daunting task for small business owners. Ensuring that all employees are paid accurately and on time while complying with tax regulations is crucial, but it can also be time-consuming and complex. This is where online payroll services come in handy. At Evmark, we provide the best online payroll services for small businesses, simplifying payroll management and allowing you to focus on growing your business.

Why Choose Online Payroll Services?

Online payroll services offer a range of benefits for small businesses, making them an essential tool for efficient business operations. Here are some reasons why you should consider using online payroll services:

Time-Saving: Automating payroll processes saves significant time, reducing the burden on your administrative staff and allowing them to focus on other critical tasks.

Accuracy: Online payroll services minimize the risk of errors in calculations and tax filings, ensuring your employees are paid correctly and on time.

Compliance: Staying compliant with federal and state payroll regulations can be challenging. Online payroll services keep you up-to-date with the latest laws and ensure your business meets all compliance requirements.

Accessibility: With online payroll services, you can manage your payroll from anywhere, at any time. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for small business owners who are always on the go.

Cost-Effective: Outsourcing payroll can be more cost-effective than hiring in-house staff to handle payroll tasks, especially for small businesses with limited resources.

Features of the Best Online Payroll Services

When choosing an online payroll service provider, it's essential to look for specific features that cater to the unique needs of small businesses. Here are some key features offered by Evmark's online payroll services:

Automated Payroll Processing: Our system automates the entire payroll process, from calculating wages and taxes to generating paychecks and direct deposits.

Tax Management: We handle all aspects of tax management, including calculating payroll taxes, filing tax returns, and managing tax payments. This ensures compliance and reduces the risk of penalties.

Employee Self-Service Portal: Our user-friendly portal allows employees to access their pay stubs, tax forms, and personal information, reducing the administrative burden on your HR team.

Customizable Payroll Reports: Generate detailed payroll reports to gain insights into your payroll expenses, employee compensation, and tax liabilities. These reports are customizable to meet your specific business needs.

Direct Deposit and Check Printing: Offer your employees the convenience of direct deposit or printed paychecks. Our system supports both options to accommodate your preferences.

Integration with Accounting Software: Seamlessly integrate our payroll services with your existing accounting software for streamlined financial management.

Why Evmark is the Best Choice for Small Business Payroll Services

At Evmark, we understand the unique challenges faced by small businesses when it comes to payroll management. Our online payroll services are designed to simplify the process, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency. Here’s why Evmark stands out as the best payroll provider for small businesses:

Expertise: With years of experience in payroll management, our team of experts is well-versed in the complexities of payroll processing and compliance.

Personalized Support: We offer personalized support to our clients, ensuring that you receive the assistance you need when you need it. Our dedicated customer service team is always ready to help.

Affordable Pricing: We offer competitive pricing plans tailored to the needs of small businesses, making our services accessible without compromising on quality.

Scalable Solutions: As your business grows, our payroll services can scale with you, ensuring that your payroll management remains efficient and effective.

User-Friendly Interface: Our intuitive platform is easy to use, allowing you to manage your payroll with minimal training and effort.

Conclusion

Efficient payroll management is crucial for the success of any small business. By choosing Evmark's online payroll services, you can streamline your payroll processes, ensure compliance, and focus on what matters most – growing your business. Explore the benefits of our online payroll services today and see why we are the best payroll provider for small businesses.

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Employees demanding payroll slips, accounts demanding tax statements, and bookkeeping staff demanding invoices, and everything is rapidly falling apart? Well, if that’s your situation, too, then don’t panic. I have the perfect solution for your problem: outsourcing a bookkeeping solutions California company named FirstCorr to handle all your bookkeeping problems.

Small businesses necessarily don’t have enough resources like money and experience to handle financial matters, which makes them lag behind on some matters of growth. Bookkeeping is the practice of organizing, classifying, and maintaining a record of the company’s transactions on a daily basis.

People have had many myths about financial outsourcing services, but the truth is that with Bookkeeping Solutions California, small businesses can easily get bookkeeping services at affordable rates and of high quality without having to hire someone for the job and pay double the amount.

FirstCorr Financial Services LLC - Outsourcing Payroll Service Company

Payroll management and distribution is a headache is itself when you’ve got to pay the people working under you, but you don’t have much to give back. Payroll management is a crucial component part in the successful operations of a small business as it is the task of issuing paychecks and salaries to their employees.

FirstCorr is a well-known payroll service company that provides financial outsourcing services related to payroll like Payroll Processing, Collect & Submit Payroll Tax Payments, Prepare & Submit Payroll Tax Reports, W-2 Reporting, 1099 Reporting, and many more.

Financial outsourcing is often looked down upon when it comes to outsourcing work, but FirstCorr is a payroll service company that excels in payroll management and organization for small businesses by keeping their management and staff working smoothly without a doubt.

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Running a small business means that you only have time to give your attention to a limited number of things at a time. As small businesses lack experience and a solid financial foundation, it is difficult for them to keep up with the ups and downs of tax filings and returns.

We understand how important it is to pay taxes and how most of your profits and investments are given away due to taxes due to which you’re not able to keep proper track of your tax reports, which affects the company’s investments and expenses.

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Judd Legum at Popular Information:

As president, Donald Trump's tax policy heavily favored corporations and the wealthy. Trump's signature tax legislation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, overwhelmingly benefited those groups. 

But, as a presidential candidate, Trump campaigns as a populist. In his 2024 campaign, Trump is touting a proposal to end federal taxation on tips. He made the announcement last month in Nevada, a key battleground state with a large service industry that relies on tips.  "For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy, because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips," Trump said. "We’re going to do that right away first thing in office because it’s been a point of contention for years and years and years, and you do a great job of service."  This week, Trump's proposal to end taxes on tips was one of 20 "promises" included in the official 2024 Republican Party platform: "LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!" Trump's plan to end taxes on tips may help him politically with service industry workers. His campaign is urging people to write "Vote for Trump for NO TAX ON TIPS!" on their restaurant receipts.

Republicans in Congress have already introduced legislation to implement Trump's plan and end federal taxation of tips. Notably, the bill would only exempt tips from income taxes, and not payroll taxes, which represents the majority of federal taxes owed by low-income workers.  But the proposal, if it were ever implemented, could have a detrimental effect on most tipped workers. The primary beneficiaries would be people who own and operate hotels, restaurants, and other businesses that employ tipped workers — in other words, people like Trump. 

[...] First, many people who rely on tips earn so little money that they already pay no federal income taxes. For example, half of all servers earn $32,000 or less. A server with a family who earns $32,000 does not owe any federal income tax and, therefore, would not benefit at all from Trump's proposal.  The bigger issue is that the federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour. The tipped minimum wage has not increased since 1991. Combined with tips, these workers are supposed to earn a minimum of $7.25 an hour. That is not close to a living wage in the United States in 2024.  As a result, seven states (Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington) have eliminated the tipped minimum wage and require all employers to pay their employees the same minimum wage regardless of whether they receive tips. The Biden Administration requires "federal contractors to pay tipped workers the same minimum wages as others." Major cities like New York and Chicago have recently implemented similar policies. Numerous other cities and states are considering following suit. 

Popular Information reports on Donald Trump's faux populist play to end federal taxation on tips. The catch is that this proposed change would apply only to income taxes and not payroll taxes, thereby benefitting the wealthy instead of the workers who rely on tips.

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Opening Bell: June 21st, 2024

The City of Pittsburgh has only one plumber on the payroll.

Tasmania has posted several unique job listings as a way to draw tourists to the island. There's no actual pay, but I imagine being a "wombat walker" is its own reward.

WATER WAR!

A Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint in California.

I don't understand this guy writing in to an advice columnist asking what to do about his neighbor whose jerkoff sessions are so loud he can hear the guy moaning through their cement apartment building walls. The obvious answer is to ask the guy about his technique and improve your own game.

A Vermont state lawmaker caught a colleague repeatedly fucking with him by dumping cups of water into his backpack. Part of me thinks he totally deserved it by virtue of being a grown man using a backpack, but then he does get off a pretty sick burn at the end of the article, so a slightly larger part of me is on his side in this one.

Finally, in other "People Being Weird Antisocial Freaks" news, the entire town of Camden, Maine is ripshit pissed at a wealthy Missouri woman for poisoning trees (and ultimately parts of the surrounding public land and water) that were blocking the ocean view from her vacation home. This lady's big mistake was pulling this massive shithead move on an even wealthier asshole than she is: the trees and land they sat on belong to the recently widowed wife of L.L. Bean's former President.

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When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on March 10, Garry Tan, president and CEO of startup incubator Y Combinator, called SVB’s failure “an extinction level event for startups” that “will set startups and innovation back by 10 years or more.” People have been quick to point out how quickly the cadre of small-government, libertarian tech bros has come calling for government intervention in the form of a bailout when it’s their money on the line.

Late yesterday, the US government announced that SVB depositors will regain access to all their money, thanks to the Federal Deposit Insurance Company's backstop funded by member banks. Yet the shock to the tech ecosystem and its elite may still bring down a reckoning for many who believe it’s got nothing to do with them.

SVB’s 40,000 customers are mostly tech companies—the bank provided services to around half of US startups—but those tech companies are tattooed into the fabric of daily lives across the US and beyond. The power of the West Coast tech industry means that most digital lives are rarely more than a single degree of separation away from a startup banking with SVB.

The bank's customers may now be getting their money back but the services SVB once provided are gone. That void and the shock of last week may cause—or force—startups and their investors to drastically change how they manage their money and businesses, with effects far beyond Silicon Valley.

Most immediately, the many startups who depended on SVB have workers far from the bank’s home turf. “These companies and people are not just in Silicon Valley,” says Sarah Kunst, managing director of Cleo Capital, a San Francisco firm that invests in early-stage startups.

Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham said yesterday that the incubator’s companies banking with SVB have more than a quarter of a million employers, around a third of whom are based outside California. If they and other SVB customers suffer cash crunches or cut back expansion plans, rent payments in many parts of the world may be delayed and staff may no longer buy coffees and lunches at the corner deli. Cautious about the future, businesses may withhold new hires, and staff who remain may respond in kind, cutting local spending or delaying home purchases or renovation work.

The second- and third-order impacts of startups hitting financial trouble or just slowing down could be more pernicious. “When you say: ‘Oh, I don’t care about Silicon Valley,’ yes, that might sound fine. But the reality is very few of us are Luddites,” Kunst says. “Imagine you wake up and go to unlock your door, and because they’re a tech company banking with SVB who can no longer make payroll, your app isn’t working and you’re struggling to unlock your door.” Perhaps you try a rideshare company or want to hop on a pay-by-the-hour electric scooter, but can’t because their payment system is provided by an SVB client who now can’t operate.

Some people affected by the bank’s collapse will be in much more precarious situations than some of the monied investors and tech insiders tweeting through the crisis. California lawmaker Scott Wiener, a member of the state’s senate, tweeted over the weekend that an unnamed payroll processing company based in San Francisco whose customers employ “tens of thousands” of workers had banked with SVB. The average salary of those workers is around $48,000, he said, and they work in businesses including pizza places, taco joints, and bike shops. “It’s not just a tech thing,” he said.

The collapse of SVB could become a painful lesson in how the sector dubbed “tech” is much broader than many realize. “Every tech company is a normal business that has suppliers who provide things,” says Dom Hallas, executive director of the Coalition for a Digital Economy, which represents startups in the UK, “They’re not all whizzy companies with names that have no vowels in them.”

On March 12, SVB’s UK subsidiary was bought by HSBC, another banking group, in a private sale brokered by the government.

SVB’s failure will also have longer-term impacts beyond the next few weeks and months. The collapse of the leading specialist in providing financial services to tech companies could make it harder for the next generation of startups to find what they need to build their business. And after witnessing the herd-like, Twitter-fueled rush to pull money out of SVB, other banks may be cautious toward tech out of fear of experiencing the same problems SVB faced.

There is also concern that as in past financial crises, problems at one bank help expose or even trigger more at others. An SVB executive reached by WIRED yesterday, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to speak for the company, acknowledged failures at the bank but urged lawmakers to take a wider view of the situation. “An institution like ours is integral to the tech economy,” the executive says. “The biggest message is for our politicians to realize this could be a contagion if it trickles to regional banks. It’s small tech. It’s not big tech that are our clients.”

Startups need bank accounts and other services to secure investment from venture capitalists and put it to work. New financial friction for the sector could become a brake on future tech development. Government funding of technologies such as GPS has helped the tech sector, but “the vast majority of consumer technology funding isn’t coming from governments and universities in America,” says Kunst of Cleo Capital. “It’s coming from the private sector, and the private sector is going to be hamstrung in the ability to raise and deploy that money.”

The tech sector is known for its boundless—sometimes irrational—optimism, and some caught in the crisis hope that good may come from it. Kunst hopes other banks will step in to pick up SVB’s customers and become more engaged with the startup scene. “I think you’re going to see more and more bigger banks of all sizes getting excited about having tech customers,” she says, giving startups more options than they had before. To get to that point, however, we have to get through the next few days and weeks—which could be trickier than expected.

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John - P1 // short story

I'm john. I used to work as HR at Grace's Health and Services over in Mesquite. Mostly just handled payroll and logging. My birthday? God, uh; I think April 3rd, 85? So I guess I'm 38? God I haven't been asked that question forever ago. What was I doing day one? Uh, God that was years ago. Quite a blur but let me see if I can recall. I was at my desk when my phone started blasting. My ex-wife was calling saying she took Sophie out of school since she was nearby. Freaking out because I know she damn well knows weekdays are when Sophie is with me, I unlocked my phone and then the alert came on; "EAS: Undead rising." I took my glasses off thinking "What the fuck? Is the EAS hacked or something like what happened in Hawaii years back?" I clicked on the popup and read into the details. "EAS. The CDC has declared a state of Emergency in the following states: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Virginia. Health experts have confirmed a disease outbreak effecting those who have recently passed away. This disease is known to make those who are infected reanimate and have faster reflexes, increased motor function, and basic navigation. We urge you to stay indoors and avoid all contact with infected individuals. Please ensure to follow the following actions immediately: Secure your home Gather essential survival needs: Water, non-perishable food, weapons Stay informed via official outlets Avoid public areas and large gatherings to avoid the spread of the infection Stay quiet and alert- noise has been affirmed to garner infected individuals attention If you spot an infected individual before death, report all suspected infected to local authorities Follow local evacuation orders. Evac orders will be given to you via local EAS notifications. Remember to stay safe and vigilant. Do not go outside unless approved and safe guarded by military personnel to your evac zone." Shortly after reading that, everyone was freaking out in the office. Suddenly, my coworker Barry turned on the TV. I looked up and watched Governor Reyes on the podium speaking to the camera. "Today, I stand before you with a heavy heart and a sense of responsibility to safeguard our great state and its people. We are facing an unprecedented challenge, a threat to the health and well-being of our communities—a dangerous disease outbreak that requires immediate action. After careful consultation with our state's legal advisors and public health experts, I have taken the difficult decision to declare martial law in Texas. This decision has not been taken lightly. It is crucial that we act swiftly and decisively to contain the spread of this dis-" What happened next had Barry scrambling to turn off the TV, but he dropped it. I'd look back at the TV and witness the Lieutenant Governor, Patrick, rip into the neck of the Governor Reyes, his blue with white stripe suit now red, a dark maroon red. Something you'd see out of one of those cheap horror movies, but this wasn't a horror movie. I saw Samantha pass out from shock as she witnessed essentially our governor get murdered on live television. Shortly after Reyes fell and Patrick continued to devour on Reyes neck like a juicy pork shoulder, three shots rang out, multiple military personnel running over as one of them pushed the camera to the ground, still live, we could only hear the massacre and imagine what was happening. Eventually after around half a minute, it cut to a pre-recorded video of the national anthem. You know, those ones that were recorded during the cold war? Yeah, guess they never got around to rerecording those. The office was practically in chaos as people got shoved, people exiting through the front door, squeezing tightly together like a pack of sheep getting herded into a pen. I left through the back door, making sure I had my keys before I went to my car. I turned on the ignition as I quickly asked Siri to call Ada about Sophie

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Ouch. So many sentences in this article from May 2014 are just screaming for a time traveller with A Warning From The Future.

About five thousand people attend the annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, and according to a Texas A&M study, birders and their kin bring more than $463 million to the region each year. It’s a sharp contrast to the $51 million in payroll that SpaceX is expected to bring.

(And a lot of that $51 million goes to temporary construction jobs or employees imported from California, not Texans)

Here's the FAA's 2022 Programmatic Environmental Assessment of the Boca Chica launch facility, which it did after learning SpaceX had changed its plans drastically from its FAA-approved proposal.

Excerpts:

"The FAA determined that the Proposed Action would not result in significant environmental consequences."

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued a Biological Opinion (BO), which concludes the Proposed Action is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any federally listed species or adversely modify designated critical habitat.

Morgan Freeman voice: There were significant environmental consequences.

Scorched bird eggs sit in a vacant nest on hundreds of feet of land apart of the Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge that caught on fire during SpaceX's April 20 launch of their Starship rocket from their Boca Chica facility on April 22, 2023.

—from:

SpaceX Is Grounded After Rocket Caused Extensive Environmental Damage

Again, other commercial aerospace companies use Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg AFB, and other existing spaceports to launch commercial and private payloads, just like commercial airlines use airports.

Elon Musk's ignorance of Twitter suggests he may not have realized this when he proposed to build his own. Or maybe he saw the financial advantage of owning the airport, the aircraft manufacturer, and the airline. But we've seen how he handles a public utility in Twitter.

that's probably outside the scope of the FAA. What is in their scope is that SpaceX's launch facility may be on private land, but it's affecting the public, contaminating a wildlife resrve, and causing declines in wildlife.

Texans might want to contact their state official reminding them of the Texas A&M study, while non-Texans can contact the FA A dept listed at the bottom of the Environmental Assessment page:

Office of Commercial Space

800 Independence Avenue SW

Washington, DC 20591

United States

Email:

9-AST-Inquiries@faa.gov

Phone: 202-267-7793

Fax: 202-267-5450

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Sunday, March 12, 2023

Irreparable (ABC News) Auto repair prices are up and outpacing the overall rate of inflation considerably, with government data showing motor vehicle repair prices up 23 percent over the course of the past year. The cause is a combination of a shortage of workers—the industry will be 642,000 workers short of capacity by 2024—and an inconsistent supply of auto parts. There are also fewer car repair stops still in business: In 2016 there were 225 vehicles on the road for every service bay, a level that in 2021 rose to 246 cars and trucks for every bay.

Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college (AP) When he looked to the future, Grayson Hart always saw a college degree. He was a good student at a good high school. He wanted to be an actor, or maybe a teacher. Growing up, he believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life. The pandemic changed his mind. A year after high school, Hart is directing a youth theater program in Jackson, Tennessee. He got into every college he applied to but turned them all down. Cost was a big factor, but a year of remote learning also gave him the time and confidence to forge his own path. Hart is among hundreds of thousands of young people who came of age during the pandemic but didn’t go to college. Many have turned to hourly jobs or careers that don’t require a degree, while others have been deterred by high tuition and the prospect of student debt. Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022.

Bank’s failure shakes companies worldwide (AP) It was called Silicon Valley Bank, but its collapse is causing shockwaves around the world. From winemakers in California to startups across the Atlantic Ocean, companies are scrambling to figure out how to manage their finances after their bank suddenly shut down Friday. The meltdown means distress not only for businesses but also for all their workers whose paychecks may get tied up in the chaos. U.S. customers with less than $250,000 in the bank can count on insurance provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. But many companies had millions (and in at least one case billions) of dollars that are now frozen or gone, and have no idea how to meet payroll. Silicon Valley Bank worked with startups, and many “are terrified,” according to one depositor.

Atmospheric river floods California towns, brings rain, snow (AP) More than 9,000 California residents were under evacuation orders Friday as a new atmospheric river brought heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds, swelling rivers and creeks and flooding several major highways and small rural communities. In Santa Cruz County, a creek bloated by rain destroyed a portion of Main Street in Soquel, a town of 10,000 people, isolating several neighborhoods. In the San Francisco Bay Area, flooding blocked portions of several major highways, including Interstate 580 in Oakland, disrupting travel. The storm marked the state’s 10th atmospheric river of the winter, storms that have brought enormous amounts of rain and snow to the state and helped lessen the drought conditions that had dragged on for three years.

Matamoros victims found, but 550 Americans are still missing in Mexico (Washington Post) Lisa Torres was glued to her phone, watching news reports on the kidnapping last week of four Americans in the Mexican city of Matamoros. She lived in the Houston suburbs, hundreds of miles away, but knew well the pain of having a relative snatched on the other side of the border. Her son, Robert, was just 21 when he vanished in 2017. More than 550 Americans are reported as missing in Mexico, a little-known facet of a broader tragedy that has honeycombed this country with mass graves. Soaring violence and government dysfunction have fueled a crisis that’s left at least 112,150 people missing, according to government records here. Americans make up a small part of that ghastly toll. And they are a tiny percentage of the millions of U.S. citizens who travel to Mexico every year for tourism, work and family visits. But just as there’s been an uproar in Mexico over the government’s all-out effort to find the four Americans, compared with its far more limited search for its own abducted citizens, relatives of the Americans still missing are asking why their loved ones haven’t been a higher priority for Washington.

Chile’s president shakes up Cabinet, replaces five ministers (AP) President Gabriel Boric shook up his Cabinet on Friday, replacing five of his 24 ministers on the eve of beginning his second year in power, announcing the change two days after Chile’s lawmakers rejected a proposed tax overhaul for financing most of his government program. It was the second time Boric has carried out a major Cabinet reshuffle. The previous overhaul came in September when 62% of voters rejected a new constitution that had been championed by the president. The Cabinet reshuffle came after an unexpected defeat Wednesday for Boric as Congress rejected a tax package that would have helped the president fund his progressive social agenda. Rodrigo Espinoza, director of the School of Management at Diego Portales University, said one of the difficulties Boric now faces is that “a significant part of his program will no longer have financing.”

German Officials Had Gotten Tip About Jehovah’s Witness Gunman (NYT) Weeks before a gunman opened fire on his former congregation at a Jehovah’s Witness hall in northern Germany, the authorities got a tip that he “harbored a special rage” toward religious groups, officials said Friday. But when they checked on him, they said, they determined they did not have grounds to seize his weapons. The gunman killed six people, including a pregnant woman, before turning his weapon on himself as police stormed the building in Hamburg on Thursday in what the authorities called “the worst such mass shooting incident of this dimension” to affect the city. Eight people were wounded, four of them severely. In keeping with German privacy laws, the police identified the gunman only as Philipp F., a 35-year-old German who, according to the authorities, had been a member of the congregation until a year and a half ago, “but apparently did not leave on good terms,” said Thomas Radszuweit, the head of state security in Hamburg. Mass shootings are extremely rare in Germany, where regulations limit who can own a weapon, and make training and testing compulsory before a gun can be purchased. Fully automatic weapons are considered “weapons of war” and are illegal.

Female and nonbinary swimmers can go topless in public pools, Berlin says (Washington Post) Berlin’s authorities want to make it very clear: Women are free to swim topless in municipal pools, as are those who identify as nonbinary, if that’s what they want. Topless swimming in public pools wasn’t forbidden in the German capital anyway, but a woman recently lodged a complaint alleging discrimination after a pool prevented her from swimming without covering her chest, a restriction that wasn’t applied to the male swimmers. The city and its public pools operator will now ensure that men and women are treated equally when it comes to swimming topless, the Berlin state government said in a press release Thursday. Germans “are generally quite relaxed about” nudity, Keon West, a professor of social psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, who has conducted studies into nakedness and body image, previously told The Washington Post. Nudity, also known as “free body culture,” is not seen as sexual.

Russia’s hypersonic missile attack on Ukraine highlights Western vulnerability (Washington Post) Russia fired a half-dozen of its rare Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday, as part of a broader barrage that killed six people and that the Russian Defense Ministry described as revenge for an incursion into western Russia last week by a far-right Russian nationalist group fighting on Ukraine’s side in the war. Russia’s use of the hypersonic missiles—“Kinzhal” means dagger in Russian—renewed alarm over the Kremlin’s sophisticated arsenal, and it highlighted that Putin possesses difficult-to-intercept, nuclear-capable weapons that the United States and its allies do not yet have. Hypersonic missiles are highly maneuverable weapons that travel at speeds above Mach 5, or more than five times the speed of sound, making them extremely hard to intercept. The United States and China are also developing hypersonic weapons. After Russia used them in Ukraine for the first time in March last year, President Biden called the missiles “almost unstoppable.” Russia has other nuclear-capable hypersonic weapons, but its flaunting of the Kinzhal in battle adds to the pressure on Washington as a hypersonic arms race heats up, one in which Washington has catching up to do, with both Russia and China.

Hong Kong activists behind Tiananmen vigil jailed for months (AP) Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests were jailed Saturday for four and a half months for failing to provide authorities with information on the group in accordance with a national security law. The now-defunct alliance was best known for organizing candlelight vigils in Hong Kong on the anniversary of the 1989 Chinese military’s crushing of Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, but it was voted to disband in 2021 under the shadow of the Beijing-imposed national security law. Before its disbandment, police had sought details about its operations and finances in connection with alleged links to democracy groups overseas, accusing it of being a foreign agent. But the group refused to cooperate, arguing the police did not have a right to ask for its information because it was not a foreign agent and the authorities did not provide sufficient justification. In her mitigation, one member said the alliance was not a foreign agent and that nothing had emerged that proved otherwise, so sentencing them was about punishing people for defending the truth. “Sir, sentence us for our insubordination if you must, but when the exercise of power is based on lies, being insubordinate is the only way to be human,” she said.

South Korea proposes a 69-hour workweek, up from an already long 52 (Washington Post) South Korea’s conservative government has proposed increasing the legal cap on weekly work hours from 52 to 69, triggering backlash from the opposition and wage-earners who fear the plan will ruin work-life balance in a country already well known for workaholism. South Koreans already toil more than many of their overseas counterparts. They work an average of 1,915 hours per year, compared with 1,791 hours for Americans and 1,490 hours for the French, who have a 35-hour workweek, according to figures from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OECD average is 1,716 hours. The proposal has sparked a backlash from workers who fear it will give employers legal grounds to encourage grueling hours on busy weeks.

Saudi deal with Iran worries Israel (AP) News of the rapprochement between long-time regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran sent shock waves through the Middle East on Saturday and dealt a symbolic blow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made the threat posed by Tehran a public diplomacy priority and personal crusade. Saudi Arabia’s decision to engage with its regional rival has left Israel largely alone as it leads the charge for diplomatic isolation of Iran and threats of a unilateral military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The UAE also resumed formal relations with Iran last year. “It’s a blow to Israel’s notion and efforts in recent years to try to form an anti-Iran bloc in the region,” said Yoel Guzansky, an expert on the Persian Gulf at the Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli think tank. “If you see the Middle East as a zero-sum game, which Israel and Iran do, a diplomatic win for Iran is very bad news for Israel.”

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Small Business Problems that Require Bookkeeping Services

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#1 Poor Cash Flow Management

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#2 Combining Personal and Business Accounts

Merging personal and business financial accounts is one of the common mistakes small business owners make. In this case, there is a tendency to utilize your own money for business expenses or use company funds to pay for personal items.

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#3 Unorganized Financial Reports

Inaccurate financial records are also one of the problems encountered by small business owners. It is commonly caused by irregular bookkeeping, missing data, or wrong financial input.

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#4 Not Using Appropriate Accounting Software

Even small businesses need to use accounting software to achieve optimal performance, such as Dear and Cin7 Inventory Management System. However, the failure to utilize the right accounting program can be time-consuming and result in poor decision-making.

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#5 Undervalued Time and Effort

As a business owner, it may seem easier and more natural to handle everything on your own, including bookkeeping. However, being too preoccupied with it may prevent you from making other important business decisions.

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To Sum Up

One of the last things any small business owners want to deal with is major accounting problems that can negatively impact their company’s performance, growth, and success. But despite the inevitability of these issues, small business owners can still acquire responsive solutions and strategies from professional bookkeepers.

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Outsourcing Accounting and Bookkeeping Services in Hospitality Industry

You can solely manage your restaurant, cafe, food shop or hotel, by delegating your accounting and bookkeeping services to us.