With the prevalence of side gigs and freelance work in today’s economy, many people are small-business owners without even realizing it. Working as a freelancer or independent contractor essentially ...

If anything, remember you’ll make tax payments more frequently than you file tax returns. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. With the headache of Tax Day behind us, small business owners are looking ahead with a new worry — will ...

The recently enacted budget reconciliation bill (formerly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) included dozens of health policies—but excluded the House-passed codification and incentivization of ...

Small business owners face a range of financial challenges now, including inflation, higher operating costs, and potentially slowing consumer demand. These economic headwinds often force entrepreneurs ...

As tax code changes passed during Trump’s first term demonstrated, small business tax cuts create a rising tide that lifts all boats. For example, real wages for working Americans increased at the ...

Many small businesses are barely hanging on in today’s uncertain economic climate. These are not the high-growth startups that attract venture capital or the well-established firms with full finance ...

The big tax bill signed into law by President Donald Trump has won big kudos from national organizations as a win for workers and businesses. But physical therapist Chris Edmundson said the new law ...

FOREST LAKE and WASHINGTON — A crowd of small-business owners sat in an accounting office in suburban Forest Lake last week, ready to discuss something they’d been waiting for: their share of the ...