As a single person, Shelley's income tax is estimated to be $8,370. This plus her self-employment tax of $9,890.69 equals how much she needs to pay in this year: $18,260.69, or $18,261 after rounding. In order to avoid the estimated tax penalty, Shelley would need to pay in at least 90% of this amount.
David Lentz/iStock/Getty Images. According to the American Restroom Association, all businesses are required by federal law to provide restrooms for employees. Some states and local governments have started adopting laws pertaining to customer access restrooms as well.
Businesses that provide the public with necessities, such as water, electricity, natural gas, and telephone and telegraph communication. A public utility is a business that furnishes an everyday necessity to the public at large. Public utilities provide water, electricity, natural gas, telephone service, and other essentials. Utilities may be publicly or privately owned, but most are operated as private businesses. Typically a public utility has a Monopoly on the service it provides. It is more economically efficient to have only one business provide the service because the infrastructure required to produce and deliver a product such as electricity or water is very expensive to build and maintain.