NEWSROOM

Current News
*Coalition Praises Introduction of H.R. 4961
*Coalition: Bill Aims to Level Tax Playing Field for Self-Employed
*NSBA Applauds Recent Effort to Achieve True Health Care Parity for Small Businesses
Past News
*NASE: Number of Working Uninsured Increased in 2003
*Coalition: S. 2433 Would Eliminate Tax Inequity That Only Self-Employed Face
*NASE release on S. 2433
*NSBA release on S. 2433
*Coalition Launch
*NASE Member Testifies to Health Care Inequality Faced by the Self-Employed
*NSBA Release on HR 1873
*American Farm Bureau Federation Release on HR 1873
*Communicating for Agriculture and the Self-Employed Release on HR 1873
*NAWBO Release on HR 1873
Who We Are
We are a coalition of small business organizations representing millions of small business owners dedicated to reducing health insurance costs. Our goal is to ensure that self-employed individuals health care costs are treated equitably by the tax code.
The Legislation
An age-old thorn in the sides of self-employed business owners has been the disparity in the treatment of deductibility of health insurance costs. S.663 would allow the self-employed to fully deduct their health insurance premiums for the purposes of their income tax and self-employment tax (FICA tax) and thus, allow the self-employed to achieve parity with corporations that are currently allowed to deduct their health coverage costs as an ordinary business expense.

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