ShareThisHere is the Scripps Howard News Service BUSINESS budget for Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives visit our Web site at www.shns.com.BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGYBIZPROF (Freeman, SHNS -- Column) -- Ask the Small Business Professor. Don't be frightened of confidentiality agreements. 600.GREENCLOROX (DeBare, San Francisco Chronicle ) -- Clorox gambled on a move into the "green" market - and won. 650.SAFECDS (Downing, Sacramento Bee) -- More people stash their money in safe CDs. 600.
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE BUSINESS BUDGET
Paying taxes unites us. It also divides us. People can pay five and even six times more in state and local taxes than other folks in similar circumstances making similar incomes.
Who's got your number?
In one of the fastest-growing forms of identity theft, crooks are stealing tax refunds by swiping personal information and using it to trick the Internal Revenue Service.
