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Business Meals Are Still 50% Deductible, IRS Says

12.20.18 – CEPro – By Mitch Reitman According to the IRS, business entertainment expenses will still be deductible, but the meal must be on a separate receipt in order to receive a deduction. Attention architects, builders, and designers: The next time you...

Officer Defends Decision to Point Gun at Alarm Salesman

12.22.18 – MyNewsLA.com Pasadena police officer testified Friday that he acted appropriately when he held a security systems salesman at gunpoint while off-duty outside the lawman’s Santa Clarita home in 2015. Testifying on his own behalf in the Los Angeles...

Is It Illegal to Install a ‘Hidden’ Smart Speaker?

12.18.18 – CEPro – Jason Knott Certain state laws prohibit audio recording in covert applications, so can you disguise an Amazon Echo or Google Home? Integrators are likely installing multiple smart speakers on every project,...

Canary Slapped With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Monitoring Fee

12.21.18 – CEPro – NEW YORK — When a customer invests money in a product that is supposed to offer a certain set of features for no fee, they expect it to stay that way. Canary is now finding that out the hard way. A group of Canary consumers, led by irate...