News

Seeding Self Employment

Joseph Swanson is the owner of Swanson’s Evergreen Nursery located in Niagara, Wisconsin. Throughout High School Joey was very active, keeping a 3.9 GPA (second in his class) while participating on the Basketball, Football, Soccer, and Track teams. Upon Graduation, it was no surprise to anyone that Joey was already running his own business. Swanson’s Evergreen Nursery grows most of their Evergreen trees (Christmas Trees) from seed, and ships and sells their products throughout the Midwest.

Jul 27, 2015

Read Full Story

Legislation Introduced To Allow For HRAs

Last week in congress, Reps. Charles Boustany (R-La.) and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) in the U.S. House and Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) in the U.S. Senate introduced bipartisan legislation, Small Business Healthcare Relief Act (S. 1697/H.R. 2911). The legislation would enable small businesses to continue to use Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs), which allow employers to provide pre-tax dollars to employees to pay for medical care and services.

Jul 27, 2015

Read Full Story

Bi-Partisan, Bicameral HRA Legislation Introduced, Finally

Leaders in the Senate and House introduced bi-partisan legislation that would allow for small business, 49 or less employees, to provide for Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) as a means to financially support their employees in the purchase of health insurance and/or other qualified medical expenses.

Jul 15, 2015

Read Full Story

Katie Vlietstra on Policies Affecting the Self-Employed (C-SPAN)

NASE's Vice President for Government Relations and Public Affairs Katie Vlietstra featured on C-SPAN.

Jul 13, 2015

Read Full Story

One Week & Counting … Small Businesses Fined $700 Per Employee During First Week of Unfair IRS Rule

One week after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) started enforcing a new, unfair policy on small businesses that offer traditional health reimbursement accounts (HRAs), America’s small businesses have already incurred a possible $700 in fines per employee over the last week.

Jul 08, 2015

Read Full Story

Unfair IRS Rule Going Into Effect Today Would Have “Devastating Effects” on America’s Small Businesses

A new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) policy imposing a $100 a day fine per employee on small businesses that offer traditional health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) goes into effect today and the consequences could be crippling for America’s smallest employers.

Jul 01, 2015

Read Full Story

Small Business Community Response to Supreme Court Decision in King v. Burwell

As the Supreme Court of the United States today handed down its ruling in the King v. Burwell health care case, the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE), the nation’s leading advocate and resource for self-employed and micro-businesses, hailed the decision calling it a “clear win for millions of Americans who now have access to health care, including those who consider themselves part of our country’s small business community.”

Jun 25, 2015

Read Full Story

Michigan Small Business Selected as National Association for the Self-Employed “Member Spotlight”

Michigan based small business, Forensic Foundations Group, a forensic sciences consulting firm launched in 2013 based in Dewitt, Michigan, has been selected as this month’s National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) “Member Spotlight.” The National Association for the Self-Employed is the nation’s leading advocate and resource for the self-employed and micro-business community.

Jun 18, 2015

Read Full Story

Planning To Survive: Disaster Preparedness For Small Businesses

After a natural disaster or catastrophic accident, most news stories focus on individuals and families who suffered injuries, lost their homes or property, or lost loved ones. But after a few days, the TV cameras move on, and there is little exploration of the economic damage that emerges in the days and weeks that follow.

Jun 16, 2015

Read Full Story

Organizing Your Business with Google

Let me start out by saying that I love Google. I work with their applications all day, every day for both personal and work and here’s why. I’m rather paranoid. I know that one day my house can burn down, the critical papers could get flooded and destroyed, or a hurricane may well come and take everything away. For that reason I went paperless years ago. It wasn’t difficult. I built a simple computer and used it as a file server. I purchased an inexpensive scanner and scanned directly to the server. I then backed up the server to a portable hard drive on a recurring basis and stashed it in my office desk “just in case”. This was nice. I finally had a backup of everything and could easily send documents and such to people when needed.

Jun 16, 2015

Read Full Story

...71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 ...

News

NASE Social Media