The Rose Institute-Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey was recently featured in a post on New Santa Ana. The article discusses how the 2009 Kosmont Survey found that Santa Ana was the fourth most expensive city to do business in in Orange County. It argues that “some of the BEST cities in Orange County charge [...]
The Rose Institute’s Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey was featured in a recent article by the Los Angeles Times. In an opinion piece suggesting methods of increasing jobs in Los Angeles, writer Russel Goldsmith suggests lowering the city’s gross receipts tax. He writes:
Los Angeles is a particularly expensive place to do business, according to the [...]
A recent column at Forbes by Joel Kotkin discusses the results of the Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey. Mr. Kotkin mentions the fact that Los Angeles’s surrounding cities are mostly cheaper than it according to the survey, allowing local businesses to move to lower costs areas but stay in the region.
Of course, entrepreneurial [...]
The results of the Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey recently showed up in an article on states trying to lure California businesses in the Orange County Register. The article mentions the Kosmont Survey’s results showing many very expensive California cities.
This comes on the heels of four consecutive years of substantially more Californians moving [...]
From Joel Kotkin’s article in the LA Times:
Los Angeles could certainly use such a department. The most recent Kosmont-Rose Institute “Cost of Doing Business Survey” reported that Los Angeles remains the second-most-expensive city for businesses, behind Santa Monica, in the county and third most in the state, behind San Francisco and Santa Monica. Any hope [...]
The following article is from our Spring, 2008 newsletter:
I am pleased to report that the 2008 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey is nearing completion. The Survey, in its fourteenth year of publication and its sixth year as a Rose Institute project, contains a vast amount of data about fees, taxes, costs, and [...]
The following article is from our Spring, 2008 newsletter:
As summer approaches, we finalize spring semester projects and reflect upon another great year at the Rose Institute. We give a big thank you to our class of 2008 student managers, Pierce Rossum and Emily Pears, who have led us to the Rose Institute’s 35th year. Peter [...]
After spring break, Claremont McKenna College junior Ritika Puri will be moving up from her position as the manager of our Kosmont-Rose Cost of Doing Business Survey to being the next student manager of the entire Rose Institute. We are happy to report that she has also received recognition for her equally excellent work [...]
From Kevin Herrera’s article in the Santa Monica Daily Press:
Factor in traffic congestion and the lack of parking, as well as business taxes — which are some of the highest in Los Angeles County — and it becomes clear that small businesses face an uphill struggle to remain open. Last year Santa Monica was named [...]
The Attack Machine blog posts quotes from an article on our annual Kosmont-Rose Cost of Doing Business Survey:
Recent business surveys by Kosmont & Associates, a private consulting group, and the Rose Institute at Claremont McKenna College rank the city as the second most expensive in which to do business in California.Larry Kosmont, co-author of the [...]
The survey contains a vast amount of data about fees, taxes, costs, and incentives that affect business in more than 400 communities nationwide. Updated annually, it is a valuable resource for cities, businesses, and developers.