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San Anselmo Chamber of Commerce is working with a bi-partisan coalition of business organizations, taxpayer groups, and hundreds of individual companies, large and small, to help defeat Proposition 24 on the November statewide ballot. We urge you to add your company’s name to the No on 24 opposition list and ensure you are registered to vote in time to defeat this direct assault on California businesses.
Prop. 24 would undo recent state tax updates that were designed to help businesses survive
the recession and grow new jobs. The State Franchise Tax Board estimates 120,000 businesses could be impacted and a recent economic study reveals it could cost California 144,000 jobs. It:
Takes away a lifeline for small businesses, substantially limiting their ability to offset Net Operating Losses against Net Income over time;
Prohibits affiliated businesses from sharing earned tax credits within their own unitary tax group; and
Reinstates an outdated “jobs tax” on some employers, financially penalizing companies that create new jobs.
With so many businesses struggling to survive, California already has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.
Shouldn’t our state laws encourage job growth rather than penalize it as Prop. 24 would do?
The Corte Madera & San Anselmo Chambers of Commerce 2nd Annual Golf Tournament
San Geronimo Golf Course
September 16, 2010
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Golf, Lunch & Awards Dinner $125 ♦ Dinner Only $50
Make your reservations early!
Tournament Highlights:
Putting Contest
Longest Drive Contest
Closest-to-the-Hole Contest
Tons of Prizes & Giveaways
Fun ways to win requiring no skill
Awards
Lunch
After-tournament awards & dinner
YOU have an opportunity to be involved. Even if you have never held a golf club in your hand … come PLAY and have FUN! You do not need to be a chamber member to attend either event.
The Pubic Works Department of the County of Marin is spreading the word about a new and free Household Hazardous Waste Recycling Program for residents called "Bulb and Battery Take-Back Program," or simply "The BnB."
The goal is to simply reduce and eliminate the amount of illegally disposed of hazardous waste from household products like florescent bulbs, tubes and batteries. To facilitate this; 10 local businesses have volunteered to serve as convenient collection points for residents to drop off their spent tubes, bulbs and batteries. Take the spent items with you while you're shopping and deposit them at the collection location's BnB bin for free. That's it! The Civic Center Library is collecting household batteries as well.
Paying taxes in full and on
time avoids unnecessary penalties and interest. However, if you cannot pay
your taxes in full you may request a payment
agreement.
Individuals who owe $25,000
or less can use this online
application to request a payment agreement.
4. Small
Business Administration centers help small businesses
SBA Small Business
Development Centers offer
one-stop assistance to individuals and small businesses by providing a wide
variety of information and guidance in branch
locations.
5. Recent
IRS Announcements
IR-2010-88 IRS
Realigns and Renames Large Business Division, Enhances Focus on
International Tax Administration
You're Invited to the Spirit of Marin Awards Luncheon 9/24
September 24 • 12 p.m.
The 17th Annual Spirit of Marin Awards Luncheon
Father David Ghiorso’s Courtyard, St. Vincent’s School for Boys, 1 St. Vincent’s Drive, San Rafael
The Spirit of Marin Award recognizes the achievements and volunteer spirit of local businesses and business people as chosen by the twelve participating Marin County-based Chambers of Commerce—San Anselmo Chamber honoree, Dr. Adam Cantor of Cantor Chiropractic Center. Reservations Required. Info: 415-884-5360, spiritofmarin@bankofmarin.com.
Each year, Warm Wishes supplies 5 thousand backpacks for our homeless neighbors on the streets and in shelters throughout the Bay Area. Each pack is filled with NEW warm items: wool cap, socks, gloves, scarf, and a rain poncho.
Please sponsor our event and come and play! To find out more about the event, click here.
Invitation from Warm Wishes & MarinLink for Bocce Ball Invitational Sponsorship
A Project of MarinLink
5800 Northgate Mall STE 250
415-472-0211
Government Contracting Assistance in the "BAY AREA"
Upcoming Classes: August - September 2010
Attached below is the August - September 2010 flyer of FREE upcoming Courses & Seminars presented by The Federal Technology Center to teach small businesses in the Bay Area how to sell their products or services to the government (federal, state, and local).
regional_BAYAREA_aug_sept10.pdf
About our Company:
The Federal Technology Center (The FTC) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation that promotes economic development in California by teaching small businesses how to successfully compete for government contracts. Since the Federal government spends more than $500 billion on goods and services every year, The FTC increases the potential of these dollars being brought to California. To learn more amount how The FTC can help small businesses in your area, contact Jack Toney, Director of The FTC's Procurement Assistance Center at jack@TheFTC.org.
Register now for 10th Annual GovLink Conference - 10/26-27
Don't miss the10th Annual GovLink
Conference - Linking You to Government Opportunities
Hosted by The Federal
Technology Center and Defense
Microelectronics Activity, the conference will be held on October 26-27, 2010 at the
Radisson
Hotel in Sacramento, California.
This highly-packed
conference provides
networking opportunities between more than 350 attendees
and 50 exhibitors from
government agencies, prime contractors, and small businesses.
Early
registration ends September 10, 2010.Click here to register now as an attendee or an
exhibitor! Last year, exhibit spaces sold out!
San Anselmo is unlike any other Bay Area city. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain San Anselmo's and distinctive flavor.
2. Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.
3. Local Decision Making
Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.
5. Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.
7. Public Benefits and Costs
Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
8. Environmental Sustainability
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
9. Competition
A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
10. Product Diversity
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
3 What three independently-owned businesses would you miss if they disappeared? Stop in. Say Hello. Pick up something that brings a smile. Your purchases are what keep those businesses around.
50 If half the employed population spent $50 each month in locally-owned independent businesses, it would generate more than $42.6 billion in revenue.* Imagine the positive impact if 3/4 the employed population did that.
68 For every $100 spent in locally-owned independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expenditures. If you spend that in a national chain, only $43 stays here. Spend it online and nothing comes home.
1 The number of people it takes to start the trend. . . .YOU
For merchants in San Anselmo, the SAPD wanted to get everyone on board with the new Community Alert system (NIXLE.COM). The San Anselmo Police Department signed so that we can disseminate up-to-date information to the public. Anyone can sign up to receive instant text messages or email alerts. It is free and there are no advertisements.
You can receive instant messages on San Anselmo road closures, such as traffic accidents, crime alerts, wanted or missing persons and community messages. You can set limits as to what type of information you want sent to you and what times. If we can get all the merchants of San Anselmo on board, this system can be very useful in putting out alerts to merchants for criminals operating in our area. A picture of the person, if we have one, can be attached to the message with a description as to what criminal activity they are doing(fraud, thefts etc.).
So far, San Anselmo PD is the first in Marin County, besides CHP for traffic, to register. Other agencies around the Bay Area are also on board. We hope that other Marin County agencies will join as the subscriber base gets larger. Other large municipal agencies are using this service such LA county Sheriffs and New York City.
For more information, feel free to contact me Monday-Friday 7:00 am to 3:00pm at 415-258-4615. Detective Corporal Julie Gorwood, San Anselmo Police Department, 525 San Anselmo Ave., San Anselmo, CA 94960, Office 415-258-4615, Cell 415-720-2664.
IRS_Real_Estate_Tax_Brochure.pdf