NHBR Feb. 26 Issue Preview

Have you been audited by the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration recently? If you have, you’re not alone, as Bob Sanders reports.

DRA audits skyrocketed in 2009, according to information provided by the agency to NHBR, and is on track for auditing half again as business tax returns by the end of fiscal 2010.

Some are calling this “tax by audit,” but others say the department is just doing its job and the increases are just flucuations reflected by the audits themselves.

Michael McCord has profiled a Seacoast company that is bucking the “hunker down” mentality of the recession and has retooled the way it does business.

Portsmouth’s Infinate Imaging has redefined how it views itself as a company and is poised for significant growth now and as the economy wakes back up.

Our Q&A feature shows that ex ad-men don’t fade away, they become artists. Michael McCord sat down with David Random, founder of Dibona, Bornstein & Random, a successful advertising agency in Boston, who has quietly spent years creating mixed-media sculptures as a sort of 3-D representation of his life philosophy.

In our “Minding Your Business” section, you will find more proof that family-friendly and healthy workplaces only help a bottom line.

And Chuck Sink’s column on social media provides some real-world examples of how social networking tools like LinkedIn and Twitter helped him to move forward on some profitable relationships.

Find these stories and more in your Feb. 26 issue of NHBR, available in print and online this Friday at nhbr.com.