May 19, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News
By Hedda Schuapak, Family Business Magazine. NextGens’ innovative ideas can revitalizes their family companies. Here are three examples. When twin sisters Jenny Dinnen and Katie Rucker took over MacKenzie Corp., an analytics firm in Lake Forest, Calif., in 2013,...
Apr 23, 2020 | Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
On March 27, President Trump signed a historic $2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (H.R. 748), into law. Included in this package is a $100 billion Provider Relief Fund to be allocated to Medicare and...
Apr 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The U.S. Senate gave its approval yesterday to a $500 billion interim coronavirus relief measure providing additional funding for small businesses, hospitals and health providers, and other national COVID-19 priorities (discussed further below). But the biggest news...
Apr 21, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The U.S. Congress is expected this week to reach agreement on and pass a bill to add hundreds of billions of dollars in fresh funding to the CARES Act’s small business lending account, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which ran out of money last week. The...
Apr 17, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), established weeks ago under the bipartisan CARES Act to provide a lifeline to small enterprises slammed by the economic shock wave of COVID-19, ran out of money Thursday. With a divided Congress at odds over whether funds...
Mar 14, 2020 | Estate Taxes, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
One of the things that sets FEUSA apart from other groups is how active we are in DC. While some groups might send letters or make the occasional visit, we are constantly on Capitol Hill. You’d be hard-pressed not to find a few of us walking the halls on any...
Feb 17, 2020 | Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA
Family Enterprise USA is the organization that represents all family businesses on a national level in DC; it is not unique to any industry. Family Enterprise USA is different from other organizations because it represents and advocates for the families of family...
Jan 26, 2020 | Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
States aren’t having to rely on income tax increases, with other revenue options around. States have more revenue to spend in 2020, and that’s not because they’re raising income taxes. In fact, six states—including New York, Utah and Georgia—are slashing...
Dec 10, 2019 | Family Enterprise USA, Income Taxes
Great Britain’s top 1 percent are now paying more than a third of the country’s income taxes, according to a new study from the Institute for Fiscal Studies — painting a picture of a rather progressive U.K. tax system. Right now, more than two in five...
Oct 14, 2019 | Estate Taxes
I want to thank all of the Family Enterprise USA and Policy and Taxation Group members that flew into Washington, DC to participate in our combined Board Meetings and Capitol Hill visits. Having family business leaders join us on Capitol Hill as we explain the need...
Oct 14, 2019 | Estate Taxes
WEEKLY UPDATE This might sound strange, but I’ve always been fascinated by tax policy. Besides the need for general operating money, the tax code serves as a mechanism to encourage or discourage individual and corporate behavior. So it’s no surprise that two of the...
