{"id":782,"date":"2004-07-12T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2004-07-12T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-12T13:12:00","slug":"782","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A GOOD REMINDER<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;Taxes could kill my business. I doubt that will happen, but it is an outside possibility. We have yet to turn a profit, but have paid more in taxes than we have for anything else except labor. I knew before I started this that taxes on businesses made it tough, but experiencing it firsthand really drives it home. Mailing checks to the government when I can&#8217;t pay some of my other bills infuriates me. (Thank god some vendors take American Express &#8211; it&#8217;s another 30 days to float some expenses!) I think there should be a one year tax exemption for any startup. Of course, companies would figure out some way to abuse that, I know. But there has to be a way to give some of us struggling upstarts some relief.&#8221;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rob at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\">Businesspundit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOOD REMINDER &#8220;Taxes could kill my business. I doubt that will happen, but it is an outside possibility. We have yet to turn a profit, but have paid more in taxes than we have for anything else except labor. I knew before I started this that taxes on businesses made it tough, but experiencing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}