Small Business Committees, Advocates Hesitant to Back Obama’s Restructuring Proposal By J.D. Harrison, Washington Post Lawmakers and small business… Read more »

Small Business To Supercommittee: We Need More Certainty In Tax Policy Owner: “There are a lot of things we’re not doing because we are not sure what the tax codes are going to be.” WASHINGTON, DC— During today’s Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access hearing entitled, “Pro-Growth Tax Policy: Why Small Businesses Need Individual Tax Reform,” Chairman Joe… Read more »

Graves: Small Businesses Will Not “Step Up and Hire” Until They Have Certainty and Relief from Crippling Taxes and Energy Costs House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) appeared on Fox Business' DC Report to discuss May’s disappointing jobs report.     Click on the video player to watch the interview Read more »

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC) Talks National Small Business Week on the The Lars Larson Show “As we [the federal government] continue to make it harder for our small businesses to do business… What does that equal? That equals lost jobs. Every time it cost one of our small businesses more money to adhere to a… Read more »

  Tax Simplification Will Help Small Business Thrive by Rep. Sam Graves April 20, 2011   As the April 18 IRS deadline passed, many American families and small-business owners breathed a collective sigh of relief after the stress of getting their taxes filed on time.  The United States tax code is a complex and contradictory… Read more »

House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) has released the following statement on the President’s proposal to repeal the Bush-era tax cuts, moments after chairing a hearing on the burden of the current tax code and the difficulty that entrepreneurs have in complying with it: “With an unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent, it is simply bad policy to raise taxes on… Read more »

By Jennifer Haberkorn, Politico The Senate voted Wednesday for the first time to repeal a piece of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rolling back a new tax reporting requirement that’s been universally panned by business owners. The amendment to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement passed 81-17 with broad bipartisan support. The provision was one that Obama identified… Read more »

By Paul Downs; New York Times "You're the Boss" Blog Now that 2010 is complete, I can see what kind of help Obamacare — sorry, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — will give me with my health insurance bills. I mentioned in a previous post that my insurance rates for 2011 were a little lower than they had been in 2010 (although I expect them to resume their regular upward… Read more »

By Ken Amaro; First Coast News Alex Bryant owns Weld Direct Corporation and was counting on a new federal tax credit to ease his ever-rising health insurance costs. But Bryant said while he thought the 35 percent tax credit would help, when he started investigating the benefits, the results surprised him. Bryant employs 17 workers at an average salary of $41,000 a year; he spends a… Read more »

By Brian Riedl; Washington Times Federal spending has expanded by $726 billion over the past three years, and now exceeds $30,000 per household. Yet if history is any guide, lawmakers looking to rein in spending and deficits will hear the following four fallacious objections: Myth 1: Large entitlements cannot be reformed. Stale conventional wisdom has long held that the public will… Read more »