Narwhal Law and Business Strategy is announcing 4 upcoming events. Our Learning with A Porpoise seminar series is designed to inspire, educate, and engage individuals passionate about nonprofit work, local business, leadership, and community impact.

7/30 - Your Small Team Deserves Benefits (Even if it's Just You)

8/6 - Who the Hell is Robert and What Are His Rules? (Robert’s Rules of Order for Nonprofit Board Meetings)

8/13 - Outsmarting AI Threats and Protecting Your Digital Self

8/20 - Leading Boldly Through Uncertainty: Decision Making Under Pressure

Register via Eventbrite to join us via Zoom: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/narwhal-law-and-business-strategy-86998676433


About Narwhal:  We provide accessible, relationship-driven legal and strategic guidance to nonprofits, businesses, and community initiatives. https://www.narwhallawandbusinessstrategy.com/

Today's youth are tomorrow's leaders. There are spots still available for youth from age 14 to 21 to attend for FREE the OAME 2025 Youth Entrepreneurship Conference “Building Tomorrow’s Leaders” this Thursday, July 31, 2025 7:30am – 4pm at the University of Oregon Portland Library and Learning Center

2800 NE Liberty St Portland, OR 97211

OAME’s Youth Entrepreneurship Conference provides training to youth between 14 and 21 years old. The Conference offers:

Intensive training – Learn the ins and outs of business from experienced coaches and mentors.

Business practices and discussion

Hands-on workshops – Master the skills you need to launch and manage your dream venture.

Basics of personal and business financing

Basics of marketing and sales

Fun and engaging activities – Games, contests, and prizes to keep things exciting!

Register here https://oame.org/youth-registration/

Sponsor here https://oame.org/partnership-registration/

Our future is bright when our youth are prepared to lead. Please forward this to anyone involved with youth in Oregon and SW Washington.

Portland City Council, please reconsider your police budget and law and order for all who work, live and visit here.

The Oregonian Editorial Board, your citizens and your business community sincerely ask your help on this timely, urgent and important reconsideration.

https://www-oregonlive-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025/06/editorial-a-19-million-budget-shift-that-portland-cant-afford.html?outputType=amp

I’m your Director from East Portland Chamber of Commerce Ron Schmidt 503-539-6817 Ron@ThePlanningGroup.ORG You can check all calendar events at EastPortlandChamberofCommerce.com. Let’s build together! 

INCREDIBLE!  You can get a FREE $150 OAME Luncheon Gala Ticket just by volunteering a little time in helping OAME run the Trade Show and Luncheon.

Other Benefits you will receive:

Meet hundreds if not thousands of others from a position of service and reason for meeting

Be appreciated by a powerful organization and its leadership.

Have the inside knowledge of a great trade show and what’s going on.

Receive a $150 ticket to attend the gala lunch and awards presentation of all the movers and shakers.  The keynote speaker happens to be the Oregon Secretary of State, the honorable Tobias Read!

First Come, First Serve, reach out to me to save a spot to serve or for more info!  Ron@ThePlanningGroup.Org

Save The Date

As a proud supporter of local small businesses, Chamber of Commerce members have access to special partner discounts every time they shop in Staples® stores, perfect for refreshing your marketing materials and restocking your workspace.

Why give just a Valentine's Card when you can give each other the ultimate love letter? (you know you two have been talking about getting your wills done, right?)

This Friday at 3PM Pacific we will be holding a Will Webinar you and your beloved can attend. Reach out to your HR department, your voluntary benefits broker or me for the Webinar Registration Link and the LegalShield Will Questionnaire that will help members putting your free custom will together.

Happy Valentine's! Your beloved will be amazed and moved that you thought to get this done.

#LastLoveLetter #ValentinesThatCounts theplanninggroup.org/will

While the Corporate Transparency Act judicial ping pong ball is now on the side of enforcement, it makes sense to just get it done. The key issues is who must do it and when do changes need to be filed. Here's the summaries from FinCen itself (note they are not updated on the most recent court decisions) https://www.fincen.gov/.../BOI_Small_Compliance_Guide.v1... The biggest exemptions are for non profits and for companies who have over 20 FT employees AND $5M domestic revenues. Our attorneys nationwide are available to our members at no cost www.BizPowerX2.com Attend our February 19 EPCC meeting to learn more from our Oregon SOS Small Business Omsbudsman Trevor Leahy on the subject.

BREAKING NEWS - THE HOLD ON THE CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT HAS BEEN LIFTED AND ALL ORGANIZATIONS ARE REQUIRED TO MEET THE 12.31 DEADLINE!

Civil penalties: Up to $500 per day for ongoing violations
Criminal penalties: Up to $10,000 in fines and/or up to two years in prison
Reputational damage: Long-term consequences for an organization's brand, customer trust, and business relationships

Our business attorneys are standing by to help provide advice and consultation at no charge to our members. Enroll now www.BizPowerX2.com

United States Court of Appeals FIFTH CIRCUIT OFFICE OF THE CLERK
December 23, 2024 MEMORANDUM TO COUNSEL OR PARTIES LISTED BELOW: No. 24-40792 Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland USDC No. 4:24-CV-478

Enclosed is an order entered in this case…
…When balancing this harm against the public’s urgent interest in combatting financial crime and protecting our country’s national security, equity favors a stay. As the government explains, and the district court recognizes, a last-minute nationwide preliminary injunction would undermine our ability to push other countries to reform their anti-money laundering and counterterrorism regimes and to address the most fundamental gap in our own regime.*7 Accordingly, the government has demonstrated that a stay is warranted. See Nken, 556 U.S. at 434. IT IS ORDERED that the government’s emergency motion for a stay pending appeal is GRANTED. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this appeal is EXPEDITED to the next available oral argument panel.

*7 The Businesses warn that lifting the district court’s injunction days before the compliance deadline would place an undue burden on them. They fail to note, however, that they only filed suit in May 2024 and the district court’s preliminary injunction has only been in place for less than three weeks as compared to the nearly four years that the Businesses have had to prepare since Congress enacted the CTA, as well as the year since FinCEN announced the reporting deadline.

https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/court-documents/court-opinions-and-orders/fifth-circuit-stays-injunction-transparency-act-case/7pgwl

OUT OF DATE 12.23.24 COURT RULING STAYS THE INJUNCTION

BREAKING NEWS: You need not comply with the January 1 deadline on the Corporate Transparency Act!

Be prepared for all business and legal issues with your own high value low cost legal services plan to help you navigate CTA and every other challenge. www.BizPowerX2.com

https://natlawreview.com/article/texas-federal-court-blocks-corporate-transparency-act-halts-nationwide-enforcement

At the Bookkeeping Company we offer a variety of services for local business and non-profits. 

Each service is modifiable according to the client's needs. 

(Rates listed are for current, up-to-date entry.) 

Monthly Review Service - (current rate $90/hr- 2 hr minimum per month of data reviewed). 

We need to do these…

•          chart of accounts setup/review          
•          reconcile banks
•          reconcile loans
•          reconcile payroll liabilities
•         reconcile credit cards

In order to do these

•          analyze Balance Sheet
•          analyze Profit & Loss
•          examine & evaluate the books          
•          advise of errors & adjustments          
•         recordkeeping compliance

As well as 

• enter minute missing data & information or advise for your entry
• free offsite back of QBD 

Additional Review Services at Request

• subcontractor tracking (with supplied docs)
• adjusting entries 
• possible reduced QBO rates 
• asset management
• enter large amounts of missing data & information

Monthly Batch Service - (current rate $80/hr- 2 to 10 hrs per month of data entered). 

• debit & credit entry
• credit card entry
• loan payment & interest entry
• free retention of basic documents

Real Time Service - (current rate $80/hr- typical range 10 to 30 hrs per month of data entered. Everything included in Batch Service above, plus the following:)

• mail receiving
• hard copy document retention 
• digital scanning of primary documents
• accounts payable 
• vendor updates
• W-9 requests & maintenance
• accounts receivable 
• customer updates

Quickbooks Training (current rate $150/hr, 2 hr minimum; includes 1/2 hr prep, 1 hr training, 1/2 hr follow up notes and emails.)

All work is billed by the hour in quarter-hour increments. Training is in your books with your numbers.

We also offer the following Service Option Add-Ons:

• Registered Agent Services (RA) $150 annually 
• Personal Property Tax Return (PPTR) $95 annually
• Articles or ABN filing $100 + filing fee 
• Financial Analysis & Forecasting rates vary 
• EIN Filing $100 
• 1099's $85 first 6, $5 ea. additional
• Excise Tax $80 
• Minutes & Resolutions rates vary
• Consulting $150 per hr 

Want to know more?

Call  (503)-252-9197 or visit https://www.tbcinfo.com/