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Small Business for America’s Future Co-Chair On Jacksonville TV

Frank Knapp
June 23, 2020

Small Business for America’s Future co-chair and SC Small Business Chamber Exec Frank Knapp was interviewed on WJXT-TV this morning.  The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on small businesses was the topic. Watch here.

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Climate / Energy, Press

KNAPP: GOP move on offshore drilling is money “shakedown”

Frank Knapp
June 29, 2018

Statehouse Report June 29, 2018 By Frank Knapp Jr., special to Statehouse Report President Trump has defended his desire to open all the country’s federal offshore waters to drilling for oil by saying that the United State must have energy dominance over all other nations. But a recent Republican proposal…

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Press, Taxation

A Lost Opportunity to Help Small Business

Frank Knapp
June 29, 2018

The American Prospect Summer 2018 By Chuck Collins Where’s My Tax Cut? Despite the claims about small business, the Tax Act is heavily tilted toward large corporations. The small-business community is all too familiar with being used as a prop for tax cuts for the wealthy. From estate tax repeal…

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Climate / Energy, Press

Hicks column: A telling sign that South Carolina attitudes on offshore drilling have shifted

Frank Knapp
June 25, 2018

Charleston Posts and Courier June 24, 2018 By Brian Hicks In at least one way, South Carolina’s climate has changed noticeably. It’s nothing you can detect with thermometers or barometers, wind gauges or rain gauges. But it’s real. The best way to measure it is through politics. During a GOP…

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Climate / Energy, Small Business Advocacy Blog

Important recent development on rolling back SCE&G rates

Frank Knapp
June 23, 2018

SCE&G electric rates that have risen 18% since 2009 to pay for the construction financing costs of the now abandoned nuclear plants in Fairfield County. Ratepayers have been forced to pay about $2 billion in extra charges on their electric bills because of this failed project. From the very beginning…

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Small Business Advocacy Blog, Taxation

You aren’t getting that $4000 raise but instead a cut to Medicare and Social Security

Frank Knapp
June 22, 2018

Six months ago Congress passed a major tax bill that President Trump eagerly signed with a promise that the average American family would get a $4000 raise due to their taxes being cut and raises or bonuses from their employers. Employers were supposed to pass on much of their tax…

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Healthcare, Press

Labor Department rules expand AHPs, in further blow to Obamacare

Frank Knapp
June 22, 2018

MultiBriefs: Exclusive June 21, 2018 The Trump administration’s Department of Labor on June 19 issued a final rule that lets groups of small businesses offer Association Health Plans (AHPs), which are health insurance plans that sidestep some provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. America’s Health Insurance Plans…

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Climate / Energy, Small Business Advocacy Blog, Taxation

ACTION ALERT and Newsletter

Frank Knapp
June 21, 2018

Newsletter June 21, 2018 ACTION ALERT!!! Legislature Meets Next Week on SCE&G Rates and Regulatory Reform The SCE&G/Santee Cooper nuclear plants debacle that has dominated the news and legislature this year has resulted in this….NOTHING! We have one last chance to tell our legislators to quit talking and making excuses…

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Climate / Energy, Press

Sea level rise could put thousands of Beaufort County homes at risk, study says

Frank Knapp
June 21, 2018

Hilton Head Island Packet June 20, 2018 By T. Michael Boddie And Alex Kincaid Thousands of Beaufort County property owners may want to tread lightly. A continued rise in sea level is expected to put coastal properties at risk of chronic flooding, not just by the end of the century,…

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Small Business Advocacy Blog, Taxation

Opinion: Feeling Confused by the New Tax Law’s Small Business Provision? You’re Not Alone.

Frank Knapp
June 21, 2018

Entrepreneur June 20, 2018 The IRS charges 5 percent interest on underpayments, so miscalculating a quarterly payment could have serious ramifications. But what if you don’t know what that quarterly payment should be? By Anne Zimmerman, Guest Writer, Founder and Owner, Zimmerman & Co. CPAs I’ve been a small business…

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