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Where's the Cash? Look Behind You

A new law gives corporations a chance to apply net operating losses to income generated in good years, going back to 2003.

November 11, 2009

There's something for everyone in the aptly named Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009, an economic-recovery package signed into law last Friday. The statute, which garnered bipartisan support, provides added unemployment insurance for those who have been out of work the longest and expands the existing homebuyer credit. CFOs, however, might be more interested in the new law's extension of a small-business tax benefit for another year and the fact that it opens the program up to midsize and large businesses. Read more...

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