Katie Vlietstra, Vice President for Government Relations and Public Affairs at the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE), the nation’s leading advocate and resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses, today released the following statement with news that the Obama Administration will nominate Maria Contreras-Sweet as Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) today at a White House press conference.
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Jan 15, 2014
The vast majority of small businesses in the U.S. took a financial hit during the Great Recession. For years, as the recession gripped the economy, the outlook for small business growth remained grim. But today, some five years later, small firms with fewer than 100 employees are finally feeling optimistic about the future, according to a recent American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor survey.
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Jan 06, 2014
With just days away from 2014, The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) – the nation’s leading advocate and resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses -- today released a list of new and rising taxes for America’s smallest businesses in the new year.
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Dec 22, 2013
With the Obama Administration’s announcement that a “hardship exemption” will be extended to those consumers whose health care plan was canceled, the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) – the nation’s leading advocate and resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses -- today released the following statement:
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Dec 20, 2013
For nearly three years, millions of Americans have been patiently waiting for October 1, 2013, the day they could access and shop for affordable health care on a virtual platform known as the Exchange Marketplace. The marketplace is the key tenet of President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), otherwise known as health care reform, ACA, or Obamacare.
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Dec 19, 2013
Q: Before I started my small business I worked for a construction company. The owner and the bookkeeper always spent the last few days of each year with “tax planning.” I am not sure what they were doing. Should I be considering some year-end planning for my business?
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Dec 19, 2013
Karen, Eddie, and Karli Renz run a family business called Bay Arts Center
in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi and have been NASE members since 2005.
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Dec 19, 2013
In 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) was signed into law to “increase American job creation and economic growth by improving access to the public capital markets for emerging growth companies.”
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Dec 19, 2013
Question: Thank you for your article on how the self-employed can calculate eligibility for Obamacare subsidies. I now understand it is line 37 instead of line 22 on my 1040 tax return. This is a relief, as I will be qualified. Since my MAGI [modified adjusted gross income] varies year from year, depending on the level of business contracts and projects I receive, does that mean I will be paying different premiums or rates and receiving different subsidies every year?
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Dec 18, 2013
Covered California, the state-run health insurance exchange, said it has launched online self-enrollment for small businesses. But the federal government announced Wednesday that healthcare .gov, the exchange it runs for 36 other states, will delay that capability for one year.
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Dec 11, 2013