Only about 2.2 billion shares changed hands in New York Stock Exchange composite volume, making Friday the slowest full trading day of the year.

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Against the headwinds of the slowest recovery since 1960, small business owners are dealing with a tax system that is hopelessly complex, full of provisions that expire every one or two years, riddled with special exemptions, deductions and preferences and filled with new penalties.

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