Business Owners and the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)? Are You Prepared to Comply?
A new federal law will take effect on January 1, 2024. This new law, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) shall impact many small business owners. It is an additional item of compliance for business owners who have LLCs, corporations, or other state-level registered entities. Here in Hawaii, if you registered your business entity with the […]
Business Is Good, But Why Am I Having Issues?
One of the most common issues we assist our small and medium size business clients with are payment disputes. Specifically, in the construction industry, payment delays can become the make it or break it difference in a small or medium size firm. This can be instigated from the type of contract used, or just unwarranted […]
Second Stay-At-Home Work-From-Home Order: What’s open, What’s Not
We are one week in to the second stay-at-home work-from-home order. The order began August 27 and is currently set to end on September 9. To ensure that the order does not get extended, please do not gather with those outside of your household. Keep this in mind especially with the upcoming Labor Day weekend. […]
Throwing in the Towel: Legal Issues to Closing Your Business – Part 2
In last week’s bLAWg: Throwing in the Towel: Legal Issues to Closing Your Business – Part 1, I discussed the duties and obligations of closing a business. If you have recently decided to close your business or are looking for alternative options to closing; the below checklist should provide a basic map of what you […]
Throwing in the Towel: Legal Issues to Closing Your Business – Part 1
Are you a business owner thinking of closing your store, restaurant, or bar? You are not the only one who has thought about it. In fact, many already have. In Honolulu, walk around any neighborhood whether it is Downtown, Kalihi, Haleiwa, or Mōʻiliʻili and you will see that some businesses are gone. In some cases, […]
Can you Charge a COVID Fee?
Can a business add additional fees and charges to a bill due to COVID-19? Yes. Consider the additional costs to build barricades, close off every other table, provide enough disinfectant, and sanitizer. Also supplying disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) for employees. Obviously, that costs money. Additionally, for those of you in the food industry you […]
Hawaii’s Headed Toward Reopening
Where is the Hawaii economy for reopening? Where can an owner get guidance to reopen? So here in Hawaii the economy is beginning to reopen. In Honolulu, hair, nail, lash, and in general beauty operators and services were allowed to re-open past Friday. In Maui, most businesses will be allowed to reopen on June 1st, […]
Honoring Fred Korematsu Day
I’d like to share some of my views on Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. California created this special day, held every January 30, posthumously for Fred T. Korematsu. It is also celebrated in Hawaii and a number of other states. The Day commemorates Fred Korematsu’s birthday and his contributions as a Japanese American civil […]
Business Partners Should Talk About Breaking Up First
When assisting business partners form their entities or when my litigation partner is consulting with me on a case I see the following scenario often: A business partnership starts with a money person and an idea person. The idea person has a fantastic business plan and the money person has the cash. They think it […]