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In the U.S., can a corporation classify loan from shareholder as an investment equity account. If so, can someone find the corresponding tax law for the definition of loan from shareholders. Thank you!

What do you call the fabric that you can stick Velcro on and is widely used at trade shows? And where can I buy the fabric at? Thanks!

We are planning to print our bar codes on clear labels. Of course the labels will be sticked onto a white background on a box, but my question is will it scan?

I have an online store, and we ship for free. But we buy boxes and peanuts for packaging. The people who we buy peanuts from doesn't charge us tax, but the box guys do. The peanut guy says as long as we have the resale, we don't pay taxes, the box guy says unless you use the item to manufacturer, or you resell the packaging materials, you cannot claim to be tax free.

Which is right? PS: This is California

Ok, true or false.

I have a friend who is visiting the U.S. She has a Chinese Passport. She is visiting the U.S. on B-1 VISA.

Now, I wanna take her with our church group to a 7-day retreat by CRUISE to MEXICO. I tried calling the Mexican consulate for her, but the consulate told me "as long as she has a U.S. visa, she doesn't need a visa to go to Mexico by CRUISE".

K, I'm only asking because I can't find this information online anywhere, and sometimes the consulates don't quite give the correct information.

Thanks for everyone's help!!!

For instance, The warehouse Department keeps getting wrong inventory numbers, most of them turn out to be human error. What's the best way to stop them from making mistakes? Can you fine employees?

I got a few employees who text all day long! Is it legal to confiscate their cellphone till after work if it is a company policy?? Again this is California.

It's for employees

We distribute to all of California. When our clients don't have a resell number, what tax rate do we charge them? By their city sales tax rate? Or by our city sales tax rate? Or just California's base sales tax rate?

BOE tells me to just charge by our county rate, then I called, and someone else said charge by the highest rate in California... Help?

Let's say I interviewed 5 students, and want to put them on a job training program for 3 days. Then based on the performance, I'm going to select 2/5 to hire.

Does the employer pay the candidates for the job training? Or is the employer allowed to charge for the job training? Or can the employer offer the job training for free?

Just want to know what the employer can do, and can not do.

PS: I'm in California

Okay, let's use a watch for example.

A manufacturer in China invented a new look for a "watch". 5 distributors in the United States liked it and decides to go ahead and carry it. Let's say "distributor A" was the first guy to carry the new watch, then came the other 4 distributors. The first distributor goes and patents the product.

- The manufacturer did not exclusive the product to distributor A in the U.S.

- All five distributors buy from the same manufacturer

QUESTION: So does Distributor A get the exclusive right to carry this product in the U.S.? Again, the product is invented, created and made in China.

Happy New Year! I need help to have my computers connected behind my first router(R1) to the same as the computers connected behind my second router(R2). Here's how they are setup:

R1:

Comcast SMC 8014 gateway (modem):

WAN DHCP IP: 67.1X1.XXX.3

WAN DHCP Subnet Mask: 0.0.0.0

WAN DHCP Default Gateway: 0.0.0.0

DNS : 68.87.76.182

LAN DHCP enabled 10.1.10.10 ~ 10.1.10.199

R2:

LINKSYS BEFW11S4 connected behind the gateway:

WAN IP: 10.1.10.193

subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway: 10.1.10.1

DNS: 10.1.10.1

Local IP: 192.168.1.1

Local DHCP Server: Disabled

Thank you all for your helps.

I'm trying to create a statement in excel from a folder of excel files. For example:

#1

I have a file folder with numeral identical invoice excel files.

*in these invoice spreadsheets, all the cell A1 are invoice #s; cells B2:B14 are product codes.

#2

I create a spreadsheet (named:INVOICE STATUS SHEET). It's purpose is to keep track of the invoices and their statuses (like a statement/report).

*Column A in this spreadsheet is invoice #s, Column B is product codes.

Q: How can i make the INVOICE STATUS SHEET(#2) collect the data from all the invoice files(#1) and keep them in sync?

Ok, I'm syncing an excel spreadsheet with some other people (through windows live sync). But I only want them to see certain columns. Can I hide certain columns so they can't see it?

Here's the case:

Distributor in California selling to retailers out of state. (Usually in California, we ask for the retailers' resale certificate. But what happens in a situation when it's out of state? And how do we verify that they are retailers, not final users?

After I installed Blacksn0w in Cydia, Iphone reset itself. But couldn't start after that!!! I see the apple logo, but after 10 minutes or so, it just restarts itself again!!! I tried resetting it to factory setting but itune doesn't even detect iphone anymore!!! IPHONE WON'T START, COMPUTER CAN'T DETECT IPHONE PROBABLY BECAUSE IT WON'T START!!! HELP!!!

My External hard drive worked fine until today the hard drive stopped running (doesn't feel it shake). But the green light is on. I tried plugging both USD heads to the computer, but it still doesn't run. Tried other computers too, but same thing. Device manager doesn't even detect the device. Can someone help me?!! I have a lot of important data in there!!!

We are going to attend a trade show that offers a single 120V power outlet that can hold upto 500W. But I have 14 lights that are 100watts each that needs to be put up to that outlet. Is this possible? If so, would the lights be dimmed? If so, how many watts would I need to be able to use the full brightness of the bulbs? Thanks to all experts out there!