Taxation

Small businesses want corporations to pay fair share of taxes

By / Press, Taxation /

Columbia Regional Business Report (SC), Nov. 4, 2011 Staff Report A leader of a South Carolina small business organization has joined calls for tax reforms aimed at closing loopholes benefitting large corporations that off-shore jobs and profits. “Big businesses are getting away with taxation murder,” said Frank Knapp, president and CEO of the South Carolina Small […]

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Small Businesses Call For Buffett Rule For Corporations

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New Report Shows GE, Verizon and 35 Other Big Businesses Paid No Income Tax in 2010 on Combined Profit of $50 Billion  By Bob Keener | Business for Shared Prosperity November 3, 2011 ** Business owners available for comment in many states in addition to those quoted below ** Statement from Business for Shared Prosperity,

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The 99% need help

By / Economy, Politics, Taxation /

Yesterday the Senate failed to move forward the President’s plan to invest $35 billion in the states to help keep teachers, law enforcement personnel and firefighters from being fired due to budget shortfalls.  The 60 votes were needed to keep the measure alive but all 50 of the GOP Senators voted against it. So what

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Millionaire challenge

By / Taxation, US Chamber / NFIB /

Tuesday I challenged any real business owner making over $1 million a year to contact me to discuss the proposed millionaire surtax to pay for the President’s American Jobs Act.   (A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows about 64% public approval for both the surtax and jobs plan).  The U.S. Chamber, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)

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Small Businesses Agree with New Senate Study: Don’t Reward Job Destroyers With Another Tax Holiday

By / Press, Small Business, Taxation /

By Bob Keener | Business for Shared Prosperity Washington, October 11, 2011 – As big American companies step up calls for another tax holiday on money they’ve parked offshore, Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has today released a study showing that a similar 2004 “one-time” tax holiday did not

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