Fiscal Cliff Changes Delay Tax Season Opening until Jan. 30
Don’t send your tax returns to the IRS just yet. Thanks to the changes made to the imaginatively named American Taxpayer Relief Act during the fiscal cliff negotiations, the agency is pleading for your...
View ArticlePOLITICIANS COULD LEARN FROM SANDWICH MAKER
“If I started Subway today, Subway would not exist.” Fred Deluca, founder of Subway restaurants, made this statement on CNBC this week and caused a shudder throughout America. Some because they love...
View ArticleIt’s Time Washington Operates like Small Business
Do you and millions of other small-business owners care about the out-of-control public debt? Of course you do. You have to balance your budget, why doesn’t Washington have to do the same? Are you fed...
View ArticleOn Taxes: We Hear You, and Congress Will Hear You Too
Thanks to those of you who participated in NFIB’s recent survey on federal taxes and spending, we now have data that clearly shows just how strongly you feel about the federal government’s need to...
View ArticleShe said what?
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said today that it is “impossible” to tie employers reducing employees’ hours to the health law. “There is nothing in place right now in the legislation that would require...
View ArticleInternet Tax Debate Flares, But a Bigger Issue Won’t go Away
We’re all familiar with the old proverb: “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” But these days, that statement should be revised to say: “Nothing is certain but death and unchecked federal...
View ArticleBunny ‘tale’ shows how regulations can go wrong
Red tape is the one thing that children’s magician Marty Hahne can’t make disappear. As a story from the Washington Post details, Hahne recently received a letter from the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleMembers of Congress Take the Small Business Challenge
The doors Kevin McCarthy usually walks through lead to a large room in Washington, D.C., where wars have been declared, presidents give State of the Union addresses and the processes of democracy...
View ArticleMichigan: Support a federal balanced budget amendment
It is time for the states to step in and end the federal government’s failure to address the basic budgeting to which every citizen and small business must adhere. A process for doing just this was...
View ArticleNFIB/NY Backs Zeldin in NY-01
Albany (June 12, 2014) – The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) today announced its support for State Senator Lee Zeldin in New York’s 1st Congressional District race. “New York is a...
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