Ms. Yacich's boss, John Tesvich, 53, the president of Ameripure, said he had not filed a business claim yet and had hired a financial expert to pore over his books so the company's emergency claims payment would be thorough and airtight.
But no matter your business entity, you still have to file a business tax return to calculate and report how you came up with the profit or loss you claim.
But filing a business tax registration certificate (the paperwork required to procure a license) is free, and a spokeswoman at the city's Office of Finance said retailers who report gross receipts under $100,000 — and file those results in a timely fashion — won't pay any tax to the city.
Apple helped save the music industry when it introduced its music download store in 2003 and helped turn the purchasing of portable music files into a business worth billions.
Company CEO Vineet Jain helped start the company as a way to store and share files in a business context, but over the years, he has built that into a platform that includes security and governance components.
If you are organizing files in a business setting, creating separate folders for groups or projects is also a good idea.
Reputations, he suggested, could be ruined by planting an embarrassing file on a business rival's hard drive.
"The suits that have been filed are a business negotiation that happens to be going on in the courts," Marissa Mayer told me.
The union, The Writers Guild of America, has dropped opposition to state legislation, sought by Los Angeles, that would allow cities to examine state tax records to find people who file as a business entity but do not pay local business license taxes.
Other methods included the use of informants, a suspicious-activity report filed by a business or community member to the FBI, or information turned up in investigations of non-terrorism cases.
