NASE Executive Director, Kristie Arslan, participated in a roundtable hosted by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship regarding the healthcare reform priorities of small business. Arslan commented that for the last decade, the cost of health care has been consistently been selected by NASE members as the top issue affecting their business. The economic downturn has made it even more crucial that Congress provide relief to the self-employed from the high health care costs that are strangling their businesses.
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Jul 09, 2009
NASE’s National Tax Advisor, Keith Hall, testified before the House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Finance and Tax to discuss four areas where simplification of the tax code would greatly benefit micro-business owners by reducing their tax reporting burdens while also increasing tax compliance.
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May 07, 2009
NASE Senior Health Advisor Mike Beene testified before the House Small Business Committee on health care reform for small businesses. He told the committee that the cost of health coverage for micro-businesses plays a significant role as to why so many self-employed business owners go without or purchase a minimum coverage policy. The NASE believes that in order to improve the ability of micro-business owners to obtain quality health coverage, health reform proposals must address two key components: affordability and choice.
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Feb 04, 2009
Micro-businesses and self-employed individuals nationwide are significantly troubled by the current economic crisis facing our country. Of most concern to NASE members is the effect this economic crisis will have on their savings, their home values and their ability to access credit and loans. The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) urges the 110th House to act now to stabilize our credit markets and our shaky economy, and vote in favor of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R. 1424).
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Oct 02, 2008
NASE Member Scott Scribner testified on Capitol Hill regarding the importance of the SBA Office of Advocacy’s Regulatory Review and Reform (r3) initiative to reduce the confusion and complexity surrounding the home office deduction. Key hurdles faced by the self-employed in taking this deduction are the strict qualifying requirements, the complexity of the form and instructions, and the underlying fear that employing this tax benefit will flag them for review or audit by the IRS.
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Jul 30, 2008
The House Ways & Means Committee held a mark up today on legislation to address the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) which included a provision that would increase both the tax compliance burden and business costs for micro-business and the self-employed.
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Jun 18, 2008
Expanding information reporting by requiring credit and debit card issuers to report business owners’ annual electronic payment transactions to the IRS is just one of the many alarming tax gap recommendations which would increase tax regulation on small business.
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Jun 12, 2008
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) understands the current budget situation our country is facing and supports efforts to work towards minimizing the federal deficit. However, we feel that the Administration’s proposals relating to the tax gap would hinder tax compliance while also significantly impairing our nation’s entrepreneurs.
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Apr 24, 2008
NASE Tax Consultant Keith Hall testified on Capitol Hill regarding the importance of utilizing plain language in federal government forms and publications; and how reducing the confusion and complexity surrounding government forms and publications will benefit many small-business owners.
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Feb 26, 2008
Rising health care costs are significantly hurting micro-business and impairing their ability to grow, compete and succeed. The NASE supports the increase in competition among health care carriers in the small group market to encourage lower premium costs.
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Oct 25, 2007