{"id":403,"date":"2009-04-04T19:13:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T00:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:04:26","slug":"big-box-watch-companies-want-tax-refunds-to-cut-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/big-box-watch-companies-want-tax-refunds-to-cut-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Box Watch: Companies want tax refunds to cut losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN.com, many large companies, inluding Office Depot and International Paper Co., are lobbying to revive a campaign to get refunds for taxes paid as many as five years ago, as losses mount.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At issue is a proposal to allow companies to use 2008 and 2009 net operating losses (NOLs) to get refunds for taxes paid as far back as 2003. Current law allows only a two-year carryback of those losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NOL provision is the strongest tool you can provide to help companies in a broad cross-section of industries weather the current economic conditions,&#8221; the CEOs wrote to lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will allow businesses to meet payroll, retain their work force, help avoid additional layoffs and stabilize the business environment,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So basically, a lot of large big-box companies are in such deep trouble that they&#8217;re looking to extend the rule (which allows you to seek reimbursement for taxes paid up to two years ago) to go back FIVE years to try to cover their ever-expanding losses. I&#8217;m all for economic stimulus, but I&#8217;d like to think that there must be a better way to &#8220;meet payroll, retain workforce, avoid layoffs&#8221; and so on. In Office Depot&#8217;s case it&#8217;s especially hypocritical; they ask for government assistance with one hand and engage in all kinds of shady dealings with the other. Try offering value to your customer and provide a fair and honest work force, and I doubt you&#8217;d have all these money troubles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\">Seems to work for us. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN.com, many large companies, inluding Office Depot and International Paper Co., are lobbying to revive a campaign to get refunds for taxes paid as many as five years ago, as losses mount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133,70,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-box-news","category-effective-management","category-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}