Posts Tagged ‘ tax reform ’

House Committee Takes On Tax Complexity

Apr 24th, 2011 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Politics & Policy

It’s always interesting when one or the other of the Congressional small business committees holds a hearing on an issue that is of critical importance to microbusinesses and manages to get through the entire proceeding without talking about microbusinesses at all. That is essentially what happened earlier this month when the House Committee on Small [...]



NSBA Tax Survey Doesn’t Quite Speak for Micros

Apr 24th, 2011 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Research

Right around tax day, the National Small Business Association (NSBA) released the results of its 2011 Small Business Taxation Survey, because that’s what we all want to do at that time of year: talk taxes. The survey demonstrated yet another instance in which there was a critical microbusiness issue but, evidently, there weren’t very many [...]



Bipartisan Tax Reform Proposal Is Mixed Bag

Mar 8th, 2010 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Regulations

One of the big surprises contained in the research released last month by the Microbusiness Research Institute (MRI) was the microbusiness take on taxes. For years, small business lobbying organizations stoutly asserted that the nation’s small business owners wanted lower tax rates. They do, too, but the MRI research found that more of them want [...]



The Tax Gap Returns To Haunt Micros

Apr 13th, 2009 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Regulations

Barack Obama may have sailed into the White House on a rousing chorus of The Times They Are A-Changin’, but one thing that hasn’t changed a bit is that the tax gap is a headache for microbusinesses that is not going away. In fact, President Obama has been in office for less than 100 days [...]