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People start their own businesses for many reasons.
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But a chance to fill out sales - tax records is rarely one of them.
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Red tape is the bugaboo of small business.
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Ironically, the person who wants to run his or her own business is probably the active, results - oriented sort most likely to hate meeting the rules and record - keeping demands of federal, state and local regulators.
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Yet every business owner has to face the mound of forms and regulations--and often is the only one available to tackle it.
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There is hope of change.
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Last week, Sen. Malcolm Wallop -LRB- R., Wyo . -RRB- held hearings on a bill to strengthen an existing law designed to reduce regulatory hassles for small businesses.
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"A great many federal regulations are meant for larger entities and don't really apply to small businesses," says Marian Jacob, a legislative aide to Sen. Wallop.
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Other lawmakers are busy trying to revive the recently lapsed Paperwork Reduction Act, which many feel benefited small enterprises.
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Thus, optimistic entrepreneurs await a promised land of less red tape--just as soon as Uncle Sam gets around to arranging it.
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Meanwhile, they tackle the mounds of paper--and fantasize about a dream world where bulk - mail postal regulations and government inspectors are banished.
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To find out what red tape riles entrepreneurs most, the Journal asked a completely unscientific, random sample of business owners to fantasize about the forms and regulations they would most like to get lost in the mail.
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Some entrepreneurs say the red tape they most love to hate is red tape they would also hate to lose.
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They concede that much of the government meddling that torments them is essential to the public good, and even to their own businesses.
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Rules that set standards for products or govern business behavior, generally the best regarded form of red tape, "create a level playing field and keep unscrupulous competitors away," says Sidney West, president of TechDesign International Inc., a Springfield, Va., business that designs telecommunication and other products.
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Mr. West cites the Federal Communications Commission and its standards for telecommunications equipment: "They monitor product quality and prevent junk from flooding the market."
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Some gripes about red tape are predictable: Architects complain about a host of building regulations, auto leasing companies about car insurance rules.
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Taxi, leasing and other companies that maintain fleets of vehicles devote substantial resources to complying with state insurance laws and a host of agencies.
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"It's very costly and time - consuming," says Phil Rosen, a partner in Fleet & Leasing Management Inc., a Boston car - leasing company.
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One senior executive at his firm spends nearly 20% of his time on insurance, he says.
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Other forms of red tape are more pervasive.
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The most onerous, many entrepreneurs say, is the record - keeping and filing required by tax authorities.
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Complying with environmental and workplace regulations runs a close second.
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But gripes run the gamut.
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Here is the red tape that irks surveyed business owners the most:
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Next to medical insurance, "costs of compliance" are the fastest - growing expense at Impco Inc., a Providence, R.I., chemical company.
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Peter Gebhard, the company's owner, says spending on regulatory paper work and the people to do it--mostly to comply with federal, state and local environmental laws--will rise almost 30% this year to $100,000.
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Mr. Gebhard adds that spending on environmental red tape amounts to between 6.5% and 7.5% of Impco's total operating expenses.
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Eastern Reproduction Corp., a Waltham, Mass., maker of thin metal precision parts, must report to five federal and state agencies as well as to local fire, police, hospital and plumbing authorities, says Robert Maguire, president.
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One state environmental regulator returned a report because "it wasn't heavy enough, it couldn't have been correct," Mr. Maguire says.
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Employers must deposit withholding taxes exceeding $3,000 within three days after payroll--or pay stiff penalties--and that's a big problem for small businesses.
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It's especially nettlesome "if you're on the road and you're the one responsible," says Eddie Brown, president of Brown Capital Management Inc., a Baltimore money - management firm.
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Revising employee manuals on pensions, health care and other subjects costs over $25,000 a year for Bert Giguiere, president of Professional Agricultural Management Inc., a Fresno, Calif., provider of business services to farmers.
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An employer leaves itself open to a great deal of liability if its employee manuals don't reflect the most recent laws, he says.
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Alice Fixx, who runs her own public - relations concern in New York, says she has had to overhaul her pension and profit - sharing plans three times in the past three years.
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"It doesn't increase benefits, but it's costly and time - consuming," Ms. Fixx says.
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Advertising agencies and other service companies are exempt from city and state sales tax in most locales--but the exemption comes at a price of exhaustive records and rigorous reviews.
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To justify their exempt status and avoid penalties, these businesses must show once a year that each and every transaction on which they didn't pay sales tax was a legitimate business expense.
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"You need one person to just take care of sales tax," says Jennie Tong, executive vice president of Lee Liu & Tong Advertising Inc., New York.
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When the Trinity Repertory Theater named Anne Bogart its artistic director last spring, the nation's theatrical cognoscenti arched a collective eyebrow.
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Ms. Bogart, an acclaimed creator of deconstructed dramatic collages that tear into such sacred texts as Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific," is decidedly downtown.
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Trinity Rep meanwhile is one of the nation's oldest and most respected regional theaters, still hosting an annual "A Christmas Carol."
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How would this bastion of traditional values fare in Ms. Bogart's iconoclastic hands?
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She held her fire with her first production at the Trinity earlier this season.
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It was a predictable revival of her prize - winning off - Broadway anthology of Bertolt Brecht's theoretical writings, called "No Plays, No Poetry."
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Now, with the opening of Maxim Gorky's bourgeois - bashing "Summerfolk," Ms. Bogart has laid her cards on the table.
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Hers is a hand that will test the mettle of her audiences.
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For Ms. Bogart, who initially studied and directed in Germany -LRB- and cites such European directors as Peter Stein, Giorgio Strehler and Ariane Mnouchkine as influences -RRB- tends to stage her productions with a Brechtian rigor--whether the text demands it or not.
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And Gorky, considered the father of Soviet socialist realism, did not write plays that easily lend themselves to deliberately antirealistic distancing techniques.
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Gorky was a loyal if occasionally ambivalent proletarian writer committed to enlightening the masses with plain speaking rooted in a slightly sour version of Chekhovian humanism.
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And "Summerfolk," penned in 1904 as a kind of sequel to Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard," is a lawn party of Russian yuppies engaged in an exhausting ideological fight to the finish between the allrightniks and the reformers.
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Along the way there also are lots of romantic dalliances.
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Wisely Ms. Bogart has kept Gorky's time and place intact.
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Despite the absence of samovars -LRB- and a tendency to turn the furniture upside down -RRB-, the production is rich in Russian ennui voiced by languorous folk sporting beige linen and rumpled cotton, with boaters and fishing poles aplenty.
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But beyond this decorative nod to tradition, Ms. Bogart and company head off in a stylistic direction that all but transforms Gorky's naturalistic drama into something akin to, well, farce.
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The director's attempt to force some Brechtian distance between her actors and their characters frequently backfires with performances that are unduly mannered.
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Not only do the actors stand outside their characters and make it clear they are at odds with them, but they often literally stand on their heads.
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Like Peter Sellars, Ms. Bogart manipulates her actors as if they were rag dolls, sprawling them on staircases, dangling them off tables, even hanging them from precipices while having them perform some gymnastic feats of derring - do.
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There are moments in this "Summerfolk" when the characters populating the vast multilevel country house -LRB- which looks like a parody of Frank Lloyd Wright and is designed by Victoria Petrovich -RRB- spout philosophic bon mots with the self - conscious rat - a - tat - tat pacing of "Laugh In."
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"Talk hurts from where it spurts," one of them says.
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The clash of ideologies survives this treatment, but the nuance and richness of Gorky's individual characters have vanished in the scuffle.
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As for the humor that Gorky's text provides, when repainted in such broad strokes -LRB- particularly by the lesser members of the ensemble -RRB- it looks and sounds forced.
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Ms. Bogart does better with music than with words when she wants, as she so often does want, to express herself through Gorky's helpless play.
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Here she has the aid of her longtime associate Jeff Helpern, whom she appointed Trinity's first - ever musical director and whom she equipped with a spanking new $60,000 sound system and recording studio.
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For Gorky, Mr. Helpern provided an aural collage of Debussy and Rachmaninoff, which is less a score than a separate character with a distinct point of view.
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Like Brecht, and indeed Ezra Pound, Ms. Bogart has said that her intent in such manipulative staging of the classics is simply an attempt to "make it new."
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Indeed, during a recent post-production audience discussion, the director explained that her fondest artistic wish was to find a way to play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" so that the song's "original beauty comes through," surmounting the cliche.
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The danger that Ms. Bogart seems to be courting here is one of obfuscation rather than rejuvenation, a vision so at odds with the playwright's that the two points of view nullify, rather than illuminate, each other.
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Ms. Bogart's cast is part and parcel of the problem.
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Ed Shea and Barbara Orson never find a real reason for their love affair as the foolish, idealistic young Vass and the tirelessly humanitarian doctor Maria Lvovna.
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Cynthia Strickland as the long - suffering Varvara is a tiresome whiner, not the inspirational counterrevolutionary Gorky intended.
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Better to look in the corners for performances that inspire or amuse.
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Janice Duclos, in addition to possessing one of the evening's more impressive vocal instruments, brings an unsuspected comedic touch to her role of Olga, everybody's favorite mom.
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Marni Rice plays the maid with so much edge as to steal her two scenes.
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But it is the Trinity Rep newcomer, Jonathan Fried -LRB- Zamislov, the paralegal -RRB- who is the actor to watch, whether he is hamming it up while conducting the chamber musicians or seducing his neighbor's wife -LRB- Becca Lish -RRB- by licking her bosom.
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Ms. de Vries writes frequently about theater.
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Yields on certificates of deposit at major banks were little changed in the latest week.
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The average yield on six - month CDs of $50,000 and less slipped to 7.96% from 8.00%, according to Banxquote Money Markets, an information service based here.
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On one - year CDs of $50,000 and less, the average slid to 8.02% from 8.06%.
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Both issues are among the most popular with individual investors.
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"It's unclear how much rates can fall and how soon."
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Changes in CD yields in the week ended Tuesday were in line with blips up and down within a fairly narrow range for the last two months.
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Interest rates generally began declining last spring after moving steadily upward for more than a year.
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The average yield on small - denomination three - month CDs moved up two - hundredths of a percentage point in the latest week to 7.85%.
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Long - term CDs declined just a fraction.
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The average yield on both two - year CDs and five - year CDs was 7.98%.
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Only CDs sold by major brokerage firms posted significant increases in average yields in the latest week, reflecting increased yields on Treasury bills sold at Monday's auction.
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The average yield on six - month broker - sold CDs rose to 8.29% from 8.05% and on one - year CDs the average yield rose to 8.30% from 8.09%.
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