Articles written by Tonda Benge

Tonda Benge|May 8, 2019

With Tax Day behind us and National Small Business Week upon us, it’s the perfect moment to reflect on what helps small businesses prosper. Encouraging people to “Shop Local” definitely helps. Each year, Small Business Week gives my business a boost. Not so the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Although proponents of the law vowed to “help small business,” the hollowness of that promise became obvious this tax season. Here’s what I know. I paid more taxes after the law passed; I paid my accountant more because she had to make so many manual adj...