Law Offices of Lynda L. Hinkle, L.L.C.

The Recent Tax Bill’s Impact on You

  The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012: What It Means For Individuals and Small Businesses in 2013 Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 last week, thus evading the “Fiscal Cliff,” and the Act will impact all New Jerseyans in some way during 2013. Following is a breakdown of the main provisions of the Act: The payroll-tax holiday that wage earners had enjoyed since 2010...

Small Business, the Fiscal Cliff, and Legal Health

Small business owners may be hearing quite a bit of griping from their employees opening their pay checks this month after Congress failed to renew the “tax holiday”  that cut 2% of the Social Security payroll tax. Through no fault of your own, employees are bracing under what feels like a pay cut. What can you, as a small business owner, do to ease the burden? Maybe nothing, at least...

Legal Health for Small Business: Schedule a Checkup Today

Small Businesses Need Legal Support Too Is your business built on a firm foundation of legal compliance? Are you protecting yourself from potential legal threats that could cripple or kill your business?  Or are you just hoping for the best that your compliance is in place because you behave fairly ethically and that is enough?  You need a business legal health checkup. Operating within ethical principles...

Small Business Retainer Packages

Because Preventing Legal Problems is the Only Way to Keep Legal Costs Down Large companies know that legal problems can cost a fortune if they wait to deal with them until it’s too late. Just like with medical issues, prevention is the only way to keep your costs down. But, keeping an attorney on retainer is not just for large companies who can afford full time legal counsel. You need an attorney...