will use to calculate the small business health care tax credit when they file income tax returns next year. The IRS also announced how eligible tax-exempt organizations –– which do not generally file income tax returns –– will claim the credit during the 2011 filing season.

The IRS has posted a draft of Form 8941 to this website. Both small businesses and tax-exempt organizations will use the form to calculate the credit. A small business will then include the amount of the credit as part of the general business credit on its income tax return.  For more information, click here.

 

that congressional lawmakers or their families helped create or run routinely accept donations from businesses seeking to influence them and allow them to "to run something akin to a permanent political campaign" through publicity generated by foundation-sponsored events and programs.

 

At the same time, a growing number of laid-off and newly uninsured workers are seeking services without the ability to pay their full cost.  For more information, click here.

But per capita spending in California, however, was one of the lowest, ranking 36th among the states.  Overall, the largest chunk of federal spending went to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, entitlement programs that are projected to swell as the population ages. 　Much of the increase in federal outlays went to struggling families through emergency health-care assistance, extended unemployment benefits and food stamp enhancements. For more information  (including county-by-county data), click here.

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for the healthcare reform in what "some see...as an opening for further changes to a law Democrats had been determined to leave untouched." The provision, which "will require businesses to file 1099 tax forms reporting any purchases they make of goods or services above $600," was "designed to clamp down on tax evasion" and "was projected to raise $17.1 billion over 10 years toward the cost of the health-care law," but "the measure has prompted alarm from small businesses, who complain that it could prove exceedingly labor-intensive and expensive. Members of Congress from both parties have taken notice, and the Senate is scheduled to vote Sept. 14 on two amendments to an unrelated bill: One would eliminate the 1099 provision; the other would exempt businesses with fewer than 25 employees, raise the reporting threshold to purchases above $5,000, and exclude those made with a credit card."

 

statutory changes to the state’s 36 year-old campaign finance laws, which spell out reporting and record keeping requirements for nonprofits and others involved in election-related political advocacy. The first meeting of the Task Force will be held in Sacramento on Monday, August 30. Co-chairman Bob Stern is the President of the Center for Governmental Studies, a Los Angeles- based nonprofit; Jeannine English is former President of AARP California; Janis R. Hirohama is former President of the League of Women Voters of California; Araceli Ruano is Senior Vice President and Director of California for the Center for American Progress.  For more information, click here.

 

Three former  employees of Seattle-based World Vision brought suit after they were terminated when the organization discovered they had disavowed the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity. The judges agreed with the lower court that World Vision is exempt from federal non-discrimination laws because its purpose is "primarily religious" and "holds itself out to the public as a religious institution." For more information, click here.