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		<title>Asking for Trouble from the IRS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article from Paul Hood of Leimberg Information Services keenly identifies the danger in withholding gift tax information from the I.R.S. If on a tax return the gift is not “adequately disclosed”, the IRS is free to assess the tax at any time after the fact – without fear of falling outside the statute of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a Trip Abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from two weeks in Turkey and Syria, vacationing with my family. There is nothing like a trip overseas, to strange countries and cultures, to gain new perspectives. One thing this trip reminded me: don&#8217;t believe something just because the media says it. Syria is about as &#8216;out&#8217; with the U.S. as a country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Time For Gifting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News flash: most of the companies we&#8217;ve been asked to value so far in 2010 are reporting lower-than-normal growth rates since the 2008 recession began, or even outright sales drops. To paraphrase James Carville, &#8216;it&#8217;s the economy, stupid&#8217;! No doubt about it: the economy stinks, and it&#8217;s awfully tough to predict when things will get better. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Message to Business Owners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is meant to bring fresh ideas about business value to business owners and their advisors. While our first posts have been written articles, we hope to use other media to communicate our message as well &#8211; and we plan on using video a lot more in the future. Here&#8217;s our first video, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When It Matters, Credentials Count</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent U.S. Tax Court case reminds us of a valuation ‘fact of life’: credentials are important and, in a dispute, often are the difference between winning and losing. In Ringgold Telephone Company v. IRS Commissioner, a taxpayer and the IRS disagreed about the value of a limited partnership interest in a cellular license.  The taxpayer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BP Oil Spill And The Cost Of Uncertainty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business owners curious to know how investors would value their companies should pay attention to the British Petroleum PLC oil spill.  The incident illustrates how uncertainty can drive down value faster and more dramatically than any other single factor.   As everyone knows by now, on April 20, 2010 a BP semi-submersible exploratory offshore drilling rig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing &#8220;Valuation Matters&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.spardata.com/introducing-valuation-matters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime customers and affiliates of ours may have noticed a dramatically different SPARDATA website.  We launched “version 2.0” over the Memorial Day weekend, and hope you find the redesign to be a big improvement.  Not only is the website much less cluttered and easier to navigate, it also focuses on the two key questions business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the new SPARDATA.com!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 21:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Davidson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPARDATA has launched a redesigned website to make a much more functional and simple space dedicated to serving business owners&#8217; valuation needs. New features include: New homepage designed to get you where you want to go on our site. New navigation that makes it quick and easy to move through each section. New Valuation Matters [...]]]></description>
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