Dec 8, 2021 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News, Income Taxes, Taxes
Have Your Voice Heard in Congress. Please Take Action Today!!! Tax Tidbit Build Back Better Timeline. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has consistently said for months that he wants the Senate to approve the Build Back Better Act before Christmas. He now...
May 18, 2021 | Estate Taxes, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, In The News, Income Taxes, Taxes
On Wednesday, May 12, the House Ways & Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing titled “Funding Our Nation’s Priorities: Reforming the Tax Code’s Advantageous Treatment of the Wealthy.” The following witnesses testified at...
Jan 20, 2021 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, In The News
TAX TIDBIT Advancing the Biden Tax Policy Agenda. With Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock winning both Senate runoff elections in Georgia last week, the Senate will be evenly divided 50-50 this Congress. A newly sworn-in Vice President Kamala Harris will give Democrats...
Jun 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, Presentation
Family Enterprise USA’s 2020 survey sheds light on factors that family business owners see as obstacles to growth. Legislators must know what is important to family business owners — what helps or hurts them when it comes to operating their businesses and creating...
May 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The overwhelming news from the states is the financial impact COVID-19 is having on their bottom line…and precisely one article on why they shouldn’t be given or take a bailout from the feds! States should say ‘no thanks’ to a federal bailout “The...
Mar 10, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News
Joe Biden Biden put out a housing plan on Monday that would cost $640 billion over a decade, with the centerpiece being a $15,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers. Campaign officials said the credit was meant to help increase wealth for minorities, and would be...
Jan 20, 2020 | Estate Taxes, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA
Today Representative Jodey Arrington (R-TX) introduced the Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act of 2020 (HR 5652) in the House of Representatives, the identical companion bill for the Rate Reduction Act legislation pending in the Senate (S. 176)! The legislation would tie...
Dec 21, 2019 | Family Enterprise USA, Taxes
If you’ve seen the recent FEUSA/PATG presentation on Voter Sentiment and Tax Policy, you know we highlight the fact that most of the tax deals happen at the end of the year when Congress has a deadline and wants to leave town. It wasn’t much different this year as...
Dec 13, 2018 | Estate Taxes
“It’s just wrong. The death/estate tax is wrong for one simple reason: death shouldn’t be a taxable offense or action. The very idea of making people struggle to file a tax form at the time of death is immoral and unethical.” The best anti-death tax argument. After a...
Dec 12, 2018 | Family Enterprise USA
“It’s just wrong. The death/estate tax is wrong for one simple reason: death shouldn’t be a taxable offense or action. The very idea of making people struggle to file a tax form at the time of death is immoral and unethical.” The best anti-death tax...
Oct 3, 2018 | Estate Taxes
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at the House Rules Committee hearing on Tax Reform 2.0. Remarks as Prepared for Delivery: “Good afternoon, Chairman Sessions, Ranking Member McGovern, and Members of...
