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GoBankingRates via Entrepreneur
You might not want to hear this, but it’s already time to start thinking about tax preparation. Although April feels far away, the earlier you begin planning your tax filing, the more likely it is you’ll take advantage of all the tax breaks that tax year 2018 has to offer.
This is the first year the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 will be in effect, and this act will likely affect you and your taxes. Many of the miscellaneous itemized deductions, including unreimbursed job expenses, have been repealed for the 2018 tax year.
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Building Design + Construction
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association updated a document for evaluating the performance and durability of rollers used in the operation of sliding doors and lift and slide doors.
AAMA 906-18, "Voluntary Specification for Sliding Door and Lift and Slide Roller Assemblies," was first released in 2005 and was last updated in 2015. "The 906 document was updated to reflect testing of large weight capacity rated sliding door rollers," said Jan Huml, chair of the AAMA 906 Lift and Slide Roller Assemblies Task Group.
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Reuters
Growth of U.S. home prices will slow sharply next year along with economic momentum, according to a Reuters poll of property experts who largely said turnover in the housing market has peaked.
After falling by a third during the financial crisis a decade ago, U.S. house prices have mostly recovered all their losses, rising at more than double the rate of inflation and wages over the last five years.
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Jobsite
With natural calamities now regularly impacting nearly every state, there's little escape from the destruction. For construction business owners of all stripes, these weather events pose a double challenge — recovering the business and recovering the projects.
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Safety+Health Magazine
Construction companies with fewer than 20 employees have experienced an increase in worker fatality rates at the same time larger companies have seen rates fall, according to a recent report from the Center for Construction Research and Training (also known as CPWR).
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The Associated Press via The Seattle Times
Spending on U.S. construction projects fell 0.1 percent in October, the third consecutive monthly decline, as weakness in home building and non-residential construction offset a rebound in government projects.
The October decline matched a similar 0.1 percent drop in September and followed a 0.4 percent fall in August, the Commerce Department reported recently.
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