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November 1, 2017Nikki L. Laing
Texas Margin Tax: is It Time For the Curtain Call?
On January 1, 2008, the business landscape changed dramatically for tens of thousands of Texas-based businesses. This change was the result of legislation that made significant revisions to the Texas franchise tax (now commonly called the “margin” tax) by expanding its scope to include entities that never before had been subject to the tax and significantly altering how the tax is calculated. To put it mildly, the margin tax has not been well received, and it is doubtful that it will reach its tenth anniversary.
March 13, 2015Al Harrison
Social Media and Attorney Advertising
Seemingly light years removed from the mid-tolate 1960’s when engineers’ standard dress code was synonymous with a white or translucent pocket protector and a belt-hanging sliderule, to the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when an esoteric commanddriven cumbersome, elusive Internet-precursor was used virtually exclusively by hardcore technophiles affectionately deemed to be “nerds” or “geeks,” to the availability to the public at-large to such pedestrian platforms as CompuServe and America Online (“AOL”) in the late 1980’s throughout the 1990’s, to the modern-day graphically-interfaced Internet led by Yahoo, Amazon and then Google, has developed into a profoundly useful, friendly and globally informative platform for facilitating electronic communications that boast the capability of traversing virtually unlimited time and geographic boundaries. In the 2000’s LinkedIn emerged as a networking medium focusing on business professionals who sought to establish multifaceted productive connections that promoted business and related interests. Contemporaneously, MySpace launched as a vehicle having broad social and cultural appeal to a diverse adult population. Then, with the advent of the mid2000’s, Facebook appeared and continually dominated the social media marketplace which grew exponentially. As social media also known as “social networking” became the order of the day ― each and every minute of each day ― the population of users grew even more and indeed continues to grow apace, augmented and enriched with such platforms as Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, etc. What next?