Jul 23, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA
A recent survey, the 2020 Family Enterprise USA Family Business Survey of family businesses (conducted between late and January and mid-April of this year), found that they’re remaining somewhat optimistic about their future despite an unprecedented first quarter due...
Jun 2, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, Watch & Listen
Family business owners want lower taxes, less regulation Family Enterprise USA’s 2020 survey shed light on factors that family business owners see as obstacles to growth. By Patricia M. Soldano, President Family Enterprise USA Legislators must know what is important...
May 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News, Taxes
What to Expect in Next Economic Recovery Package House Democrats’ Opening Bid—The HEROES Act Only four days after its May 12 introduction, the House narrowly approved the HEROES Act (H.R.6800), 208-199. The legislation contains Democratic policy priorities, including...
Apr 20, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News, Income Taxes
“Cities and states brace for economic ‘reckoning,’ eyeing major cuts and fearing federal coronavirus aid isn’t enough,” by WaPo’s Tony Room: Many states and cities, which were already cash-strapped, are now in dire straits, facing...
Apr 1, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News, State Death Tax
States brace for massive budget gaps in coronavirus recession State governments have spent a decade stockpiling billions of dollars in reserve funds for the next economic downturn, scarred by the steep cuts they were forced to make in the midst of the last recession....
Feb 22, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News
Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg released his tax plan over the weekend, and it would introduce a number of tax increases that would likely result in the candidate himself paying higher taxes. Below, we’ll go through the key parts of the new Bloomberg tax plan. The...
Feb 14, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News, Taxes
Idaho: State Rep. Jason Monks is proposing to kill off property taxes with a 5-percentage point increase in the sales tax — a move that would take the statewide rate all the way up to around 11 percent. “I call it a thought grenade; we threw it out there and...
Feb 8, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News
“Iowa Picks Corn, New Hampshire Picks Presidents” With the Iowa caucuses about to officially start the nominating process for the Democrats on Monday and the New Hampshire primary right on its heels, many will wonder what the results mean for determining...
Jan 24, 2020 | Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg is rich, aloof and imperious — is this really what Dems want for president? The curious campaign of Michael Bloomberg raises a question: Can a billionaire buy the Democratic nomination? In his late bid for the nomination that skips the...
Jul 16, 2019 | Estate Taxes
It took a while, but the dueling letters” by the wealthy to either tax them more or figure out better ways to create wealth opportunities for others has just gotten another response. While it will come as no surprise as to where the Washington Post editorial board...
Jul 3, 2019 | Estate Taxes
As reported earlier in the week, Representative MikeThompson (D-CA) introduced the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 5 2019′, legislation that would extend a variety of expired or expiring tax provisions thru 2020. These provisions have been labeled...
