Tax Day: Let's Make the Tax Code Fair (Huffington Post)

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Tax Day: Let's Make the Tax Code Fair (Huffington Post)

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It is a sad, but true fact: health insurance is a luxury item for many small business owners, purchased when times are good and forsaken when times are lean. This is especially true for self-employed and micro-businesses -- our nation's smallest businesses. Thanks to a minor quirk in the tax code that has a major effect on their bottom lines, the self-employed are the only business entities that receive no tax benefit for purchasing coverage. Every other type of business, like corporations and partnerships, can write off the cost of health insurance as a business expense.

Read the rest of this post by Kristie Arslan, NASE Exec. Dir. here.

Courtesy of NASE.org
https://www.nase.org/news/2011/03/08/Tax_Day_Let_s_Make_the_Tax_Code_Fair_Huffington_Post