Since its beginning in 2000, the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) has been the state’s leading business advocate for making health insurance more affordable. During the 1990s, double digit increases in group health insurance premiums were recognized as unsustainable and had resulted in less than 40% of…
State Regulations
In 2004, the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce successfully worked for the legislative enactment of the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act, which created a Small Business Regulatory Review Committee to evaluate all newly promulgated state regulations and make recommendations as to how they can be changed to lessen…
Telephone Regulations
The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) has consistently and successfully fought on behalf of small businesses regarding telephone service charges. In 2000, BellSouth asked the Public Service Commission (PSC) for permission to collect $340 million in surcharge fees (Universal Service Fund) on telephones that would have cost up…
State Tax Reform
In 2000 the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) was formed with one of its top issues being to establish parity with big business on state income tax rates. Under the tax code at that time, small businesses (sole-proprietors, partnerships, LLC’s and S-corporations) were paying 40% higher state income taxes compared to…
Protecting Small Businesses in the Legal Process
The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) has taken a leadership role in assuring that the state civil courts are free of frivolous lawsuits, legal proceedings are less costly and small businesses maintain their rights to protect themselves against big business. The SCSBCC has successfully supported legislation to:…
Workforce Development & Job Creation
The statewide small business forums held by the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of commerce (SCSBCC) in 2000 identified workforce development and job creation as a top issues for small businesses. South Carolina did not have then and still lacks adequate numbers of well-trained, technically skilled workers for small businesses…
State Government Procurement
In 2003, the SCSBCC learned that roughly 42 percent of our state’s procurement dollars were going to out-of-state contractors. It was clear to us that keeping more of this approximately 1.3 billion in taxpayer dollars (at that time) in South Carolina would greatly help our small businesses and economy. The…
Community-Based Economic Development
THE SC SMALL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1717 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 252-5733 www.scsbc.org Community-Based Economic Development All economic experts agree that most new jobs created will be by small businesses. Yet the South Carolina Department of Commerce continues to focus primarily on large business recruitment and development. …