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By Cameron Nyack:  A Practical Guide for Business Owners in 2025 and Beyond On July 4, 2025, the U.S. Congress passed—and the President signed—the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). For business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone operating a small or midsize company, the law introduces significant changes in taxation, deductions, depreciation, and investment incentives. If you run a business, OBBBA creates new opportunities to save money, expand, and strategically lower your tax burden. Here’s how companies can benefit — and how to position yourself to take full advantage. 1. 100% Bonus Depreciation (Full Expensing of Qualified Assets) Under OBBBA, businesses can immediately deduct 100% of the cost of qualified assets — machinery, equipment, vehicles, and specific property improvements — placed into service after January 19, 2025. This allows businesses to: Lower tax liability dramatically Reduce the after-tax cost of investment Accelerate upgrades, expansion, and modernization Th...

  By Cameron Nyack:  In today's hyper-competitive world, companies obsess over revenue growth and cost-cutting initiatives, yet most quietly hemorrhage millions through invisible resource waste. These leaks aren't always dramatic fraud or theft — they're often embedded in everyday processes, culture, and outdated thinking. Here are the ten most common (and costly) ways businesses misuse or waste resources in 2025. 1. Meetings That Should Have Been Emails The average employee spends 23 hours a week in meetings, with over 50% of attendees rating them as unproductive (Harvard Business Review). Multiply that by salaries, and a mid-sized company easily burns $5–10 million annually on pointless gatherings. Recurring status meetings, "syncs," and "brainstorming sessions" without agendas or decisions drain time — the most non-renewable resource of all. 2. Over-Engineering and Feature Bloat Product teams love building "nice-to-haves." Software companies...