Federal Legislative Issues
The NASE Monitors Small Business Laws Affecting You
With the NASE as your representative, your views are heard on Capitol Hill. The NASE monitors legislation that affects small business and the self-employed. During the 111th Congress, the NASE is urging legislators to help small businesses by focusing on these top priority issues:
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The NASE feels that rather than adding to the burden of compliance faced by micro-business taxpayers through increased regulations, the goal should be to simplify the tax regulations.
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The NASE is urging the Obama Administration and Congress to pass targeted tax relief to assist the small business and self-employed communities.
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The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) strongly supports proposals such as health care tax credits, a self-employment tax deduction on health insurance premiums, expansion of both Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and pooling arrangements for small business as important steps to creating an equitable environment for micro-businesses and the self-employed to purchase affordable, quality health coverage.
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To achieve tax equity between all forms of business entities, the self-employed must be able to exclude health insurance premiums from self-employment tax regardless of the entity form under which they choose to operate.
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The NASE supports efforts to improve our health care system to make it easier for individuals to attain and understand health coverage.
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The NASE believes that the home office deduction must be simplified and expanded to allow home-based businesses to easily utilize the deduction.
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The NASE is a fervent supporter of federal small-business programs that have a proven track record of efficiently aiding very small businesses and the self-employed, such as the SBA Office of Advocacy, Small Business Development Centers and the SBA Microloan Program.