Businesses have learned many lessons through the coronavirus crisis. One of them, Ashley Furniture Industries CEO Todd Wanek said in a recent Home Furnishings Association webinar, is “that you’ve got to be politically connected.” When states issued orders requiring most businesses to close, they made exceptions for retailers selling “essential”
The Home Furnishings Association and other trade groups pushed hard for an important tax fix all through 2019. It was finally included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act because it can give furniture stores, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels and other retail businesses a financial boost. President Donald
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