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Earlier this week, Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones announced the Reclaim Your Future program, in which mentors from the community are paired with high school students to help raise the graduation rate.   CCSD is partnering with the United Way, Workforce Connections, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, and Vegas Young P...

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 It takes a village to run a business.  And by "village" I mean if you're a business owner in Nevada, chances are you'll run across the Secretary of State, the Department of Taxation, the IRS, and the city and county business license bureaus, among many others.  Are you aware there are organizations like SCORE and the Small Business ...

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PRESS RELEASE:  On September 8, 2011, the Nevada Secretary of State revoked the corporate status of over 400 businesses whose registered agent, Power Point Management, Ltd., failed to respond to requests for information from the Secretary's office.  If you used Power Point Management as your registered agent, and your own address was...

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PRESS RELEASE: If you formed a Nevada entity as a shell corporation or in order to evade taxes, launder money, or violate securities laws, Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller and his newly-appointed Corporate Ownership Fraud Task Force are coming for you.  The Secretary's office is working closely with the IRS to fight these fraudulent activ...

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Today the Nevada Secretary of State issued a press release warning companies about fraudulent solicitations from companies offering to update your entity and requesting filing fees.  Because many of these solicitations include official forms downloaded from the Secretary of State website, they appear to be official, though they're not.  O...

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 The Nevada Secretary of State recently discovered that it's losing tens of millions of dollars in license revenue because businesses have been improperly claiming the home-based business exemption from the state business license requirement.   Essentially, if you own and operate a home-based business that generates less than $27,000 a y...

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This month's issue of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce's Business Voice features an article about Silver State Works, which provides businesses financial incentives for employing out-of-work Nevadans.   Employer-Based Training Silver State Works will provide a training allowance to a business providing 24 hours of training a week, for a tot...

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This morning I attended a presentation at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce by Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller.  He spoke about our state's economic climate and the changes his office has been making to ensure Nevada remains attractive to businesses. Currently, Nevada is second in the country for commercial filings.  New entity fil...

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