Small business owners may be able to save on their taxes for 2018, but it’s complicated. The provision, also known as the “pass-through provision” but formally known as the Qualified Business Income Deduction or Section 199A, was part of the ...

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Woodland Kids in early September leased the final 12,000-square-foot space to fill up the former Kmart building on Fairview Avenue in western Boise. Kmart, which occupied the space since it was built in 1976 at what was then the western ...

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Franklin Auto & Truck Repair is a man-and-wife operation that repairs cars in a four-bay shop in Marsing. Owner John Franklin, however, favors taking the mobile service truck on the road to tend to broken down big rig trucks. Franklin ...

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Having fixed broken roof trusses after the heavy January snows of last winter, now the owners of Owyhee Lanes bowling alley in Homedale are expanding the banquet space at their business. “That would give us double the room we have ...

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The roadside Wild River Java coffee kiosk in McCall will give way for a larger Wild River Java now under construction on the same property. Wild River Java has been on Third Street (State Route 55) since 1998 in a ...

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Missoula-based Montana & Idaho Community Development Corp. and Boise-based Capital Matrix have set up a fund dedicated to loans for Idaho businesses. Both nonprofits specialize in financing “nearly bankable” business that can’t get bank loans. Capital Matrix supplied a $150,000 ...

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In its first year with a one-man Boise office, the Montana & Idaho Community Development Corp. issued a larger volume of small business loans in Idaho than in its home state of Montana. The Missoula-based small business lender gave out ...

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The independent, locally owned Customedica Pharmacy opened its second Treasure Valley location Dec. 5 at 1915 W. State St. at the west edge of downtown Boise. The second Customedica comes 14 years after owner Shah Afshar opened his first Customedica ...

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With five Boise Fry Company stores up and running, founder and co-owner Blake Lingle and his team dreamt up a ramen shop with ping pong tables for the basement under the Capitol Boulevard store. RamaPong expects a late September opening ...

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Waffle Me Up will likely be the first restaurant in Boise and Idaho to specialize in the Liège waffle, a denser, sweeter, chewier cousin to the standard Brussels waffle that is served everywhere. The Liège waffle only started gaining a ...

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