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2025 AUTOMOTIVE CALENDAR PROGRAM

Promote your business by keeping your name in front of your Customers all year long for just pennies per day! Realizing you have many choices of where to spend your advertising dollars for your annual purchase of calendars, WAIA has put together another terrific program. If you are currently ordering

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IRS increases mileage rate for 2024

The Internal Revenue Service today issued the 2024 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2024, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks)

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Yang (Young Auto Care Network Group)

The auto care industry’s dynamic and vibrant under-40 set finds its home with the Young Auto Care Network Group (YANG). YANG provides young auto care professionals in their twenties and thirties the opportunity to network with industry peers, enhance knowledge and improve leadership capabilities. Read more.

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Attract Young People with the New Auto Careers Website

The Auto Care Association has launched a new auto care careers website, www.autocarecareers.org, to educate young people about, and attract them to, careers in the auto care industry. The website has resources and information highlighting the variety of professional positions, fast growth potential and dynamic career paths available in the

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EMV vs. Chargeback

Chargeback [chahrj-bak] noun: Ugly debits to the business bank account that come out of nowhere, and eat up profit that could be used to pad the coffers; buy more advertising, or better yet, more inventory; maybe pad the employee bonus fund for the upcoming holidays. If you’ve been in business

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Credit Card Fraud Liability Shifts to Merchants

In the coming months, most new credit and debit cards will come embedded with a microchip that helps prevent counterfeit fraud. Next year, some fraud liability will shift from issuers to merchants who haven’t upgraded their terminals. Why are EMV chip cards the best option for businesses today? Businesses that

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Have You Looked At Your Credit Card Rates Lately?

Each year, as you sit down to review your books and see how this year matches up to the year before, add in a review of your credit card processing merchant account. Take the December statements for 2013 and 2012, and do an apples-to-apples comparison on your rates, miscellaneous fees,

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Sources of Reliable Health Care Reform Information

WAIA wants to help you keep connected to various sources of reliable information that will help you keep your business up to date with Health Reform in general and specifically in the state of Washington. Here are a number of Web site links to trusted organizations with up-to-date information on

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