House Committee Takes On Tax Complexity
Apr 25th, 2011 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: PodcastsIt’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these, hasn’t it?
So, Washington has been rather thin of microbusiness news lately, primarily because everybody has been focused on other things.
The new Republican House majority has been focused on passing a bunch of symbolic legislation that (they are perfectly well aware) doesn’t have a prayer of being signed into law. And never mind the President’s veto pen, this is stuff that won’t get past the Senate.
Meanwhile, the one thing they are not doing is focusing on everybody’s ongoing economic pain — except to the extent that they can manage to pass more tax breaks for amazingly wealthy people … but I digress.
They aren’t doing anything at all for small businesses but (before you accuse me of being in the middle of a partisan rant) neither is anybody else. The White House is full of corporate kiss-ups and the Senate isn’t any more micro-friendly now than it ever has been.
Actually, never mind micro-friendly. Not only is there little discussion of microbusinesses, there’s not even much attention being paid to small businesses. Well, except for the research.
There’s always research.
For more information:
- House Committee on Small Business
- NSBA 2011 Small Business Taxation Survey
- SBA Office of Advocacy
