Some local entrepreneurs have been stunned because they failed to meet all the rules for the small-business tax credits in last year's highly vaunted federal health care law to help cover their health care costs.
Take Linda Derivi, for example. Derivi had hoped she'd get a break to help cover her company's health insurance costs from the tax credits that small employers were able to claim this year under the year-old health care law. But her business didn't qualify because she has a professional staff that's highly paid. To qualify, the average wages for employees must be $50,000 or less.
