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Latest ACA “Clarification” Creates More Obstacles for Small Businesses

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:

Dec 20, 2013

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Now What? Health Care Launch Stumbles And The Self-Employed Have Questions

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.

Dec 19, 2013

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Ask The Experts: Tax Planning

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?

Dec 19, 2013

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The Art of a Family Business

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.

Dec 19, 2013

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The Securities & Exchange Commission Speaks On Crowdfunding

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.”

Dec 19, 2013

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Why It's So Tricky for the Self-Employed to Estimate Health Insurance Costs (Bloomberg Businessweek)

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?

Dec 18, 2013

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State's small businesses use Obamacare (Orange County Register)

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.

Dec 11, 2013

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Vlietstra Named Vice President for the National Association for the Self-Employed

Keith Hall, President and CEO of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) – the nation’s leading advocate and resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses - today announced that Katie Vlietstra will be promoted to Vice President for Government Relations and Public Affairs. The newly enhanced position will cover a broad range of activities including managing the Washington, DC office, but also directing all government relations and public affairs activities. Vlietstra was formerly NASE’s Director of Government Affairs.

Dec 09, 2013

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How Do the Self-Employed Save for Retirement? Erratically (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Americans aren’t very good at saving money. The self-employed are even worse. Asurvey published this week by TD Ameritrade (AMTD) shows that 40 percent of America’s 10 million self-employed workers aren’t saving regularly for retirement and 28 percent aren’t saving at all. That compares with about 10 percent of traditionally employed workers who aren’t saving for retirement, according to the survey, which 2,000 U.S. residents completed online.

Dec 05, 2013

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Local business owners see increasing holiday sales (Wausau Daily Herald)

With shoppers standing in line for door-buster deals Thursday and Friday at some of the nation’s top big-box retails, many central Wisconsin businesses were taking advantage of an increasing trend to focus the day after Black Friday.

Dec 05, 2013

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