Your Growth Deserves More Than a Zip Code – It Deserves a Strategy Your Growth Deserves More Than a Zip Code – It Deserves a Strategy According to the latest Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices survey, small business owners are forging ahead with growth plans despite persistent uncertainty around capital access, tax policy, and trade. […]
Minnesota enacts omnibus tax legislation that includes changes to R&D tax credit and data center incentives
Minnesota House File 9 ( HF 9 ) introduces significant tax changes, including an increase in the gross receipts tax rate on taxable cannabis products and the repeal of the sales tax exemption for data centers. The state’s R&D tax credit becomes partially refundable starting in tax year 2025, with refundability rates of 19.2% for 2025 and […]
Texas- Corporate Income Tax: Tax Credit Created For Contributions Supporting At Risk Families
Texas has created the Strong Families Tax Credit against its franchise tax, providing a credit of up to $1 million annually per taxable entity for designated contributions to eligible organizations supporting at-risk families and parenting initiatives. The total statewide credit is capped at $5 million yearly, with unused credits eligible for carryforward for up to […]
Texas- Corporate Income, Sales and Use Taxes: Research and Development Tax Credit Revised
Texas has repealed its prior research and development tax credit and its associated tax credit and replaced them with a revised research and development tax credit. The credit varies based on prior expenses and collaborations, ranging from 4.361% to 10.903%, and provides a refundable option for entities owing no tax. (S.B. 2206), Laws 2025, effective […]
Leaders That Navigate Disruption With Confidence
Leaders That Navigate Disruption With Confidence Leaders Choose the Right Location & the Right Way This week RSM, the largest accounting firm outside of the Big Four in the U.S., based on revenue, with a focus on providing middle-market businesses with audit, tax and consulting services, announced its U.S. unit plans to invest $1 billion […]

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