Tax, Regulation and Business Response – How to Survive and Thrive
The truckers circled round the capital, February 6, 2020, in protest over governor Kate Brown and the Oregon state legislature’s new taxes: gross receipt’s tax, carbon tax, payroll tax and many, many more. You name it there is a tax on business and employees. Your business is facing the ramifications of these taxes. [...]
Power of Value Stream Costing in 2021
In February 2020, truckers circled round the capital in protest over governor Kate Brown and the Oregon state legislature’s new taxes: gross receipt’s tax, carbon tax, payroll tax and much more. You name it a tax was levied on it. Oregonians had no idea what was about to befall us in [...]
Business Elephants, Risks, and Solutions
My last business trip to Portland, Oregon was hard to take. Once a Rosy city (City of Roses) the riots and fires of 2020- 2022 and COVID lock-downs have turned into a bit of Detroit after the riots in 1967. What is happening in Portland now? As of November 2023, [...]
Regulations- Forever Chemicals and Fluoride
Will the Department of Defense and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have it both ways? Debra Mervyn, The Mervyn Group February 2024 Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made chemicals that have been used since the 1940s. Since PFAs do not readily biodegrade hence the nickname "forever chemicals". Never mind, [...]