small business
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For Colorado’s regional small business administrator, family matters
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A month after Aikta Marcoulier started her new job overseeing 580,000 square miles of the West as the regional administrator for the Small Business Administration, her mother died. Marcoulier’s mother, Dr. Rajeshvari Verma, was 70 when she succumbed in June to interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that destroys lung tissue. Despite losing who her sister…
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Polis signs bill extending small business exception from destination sourcing tax law
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Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed the first bill of the legislative session – a proposal that gives small businesses more time to comply with a major change to where their sales are taxed. The new law, House Bill 22-1027, extends the exception for small businesses, defined as those with retail sales under $100,000, from a 2019 law…
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House committee clears bill extending small business exception from destination sourcing tax law
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The first bill to be acted on in the 2022 General Assembly won a unanimous vote Thursday from the House Business Affairs & Labor Committee and is on the fast-track to the governor’s desk. House Bill 1027, which came out of the interim Sales and Use Tax Simplification Task Force, deals with destination sourcing. That’s a requirement…
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Small business group urges curbing governor’s emergency powers
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Colorado small business owners want to curb the governor’s emergency powers, according to an annual poll conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business of its members in the state. The group’s survey, released on Wednesday, also shows its members reject any move to tax services. Tony Gagliardi, the group’s state director, described the emergency powers…
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Q&A with Jesse Mallory | ‘Economic liberty will be realized on the community level’
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Worried about the future of freedom? Rest assured; assorted advocacy groups on America’s political right are doing your bidding – though it’s often enough on the far-off battlefront of our nation’s capital. Americans for Prosperity is fighting the fight in the trenches alongside you – in your state, in your community, one issue after another. Hence,…
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FEEDBACK: Small business scores with Washington’s tax cuts
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President Donald Trump staked his first year in office on a blockbuster new tax bill – one that brought a much-needed overhaul to the country’s outdated tax code. He and Congress delivered, bringing home big cuts. But they’re not just any cuts. Because America’s small businesses are the backbone of its economy, Congress wisely directed…
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New poll, same finding — costs have consequences
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All is quiet on the minimum-wage front at the moment, but don’t think last year’s passage of Amendment 70 is any long-term cease fire. Advocates for higher rates will kick off the 2018 session of the Colorado General Assembly with a push to let cities and counties set their own minimum-wage rates. New research put…
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Roper: What’s at stake for businesses with congressional Medicaid decisions?
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The health care debate has so far focused primarily on patient impacts. As well it should, a healthy Colorado is in everyone’s best interests. But there are additional factors Congress should keep in mind as it considers legislation that could reshape Medicaid as we know it – the economic effects. Health care is one-sixth of…
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Advocate for small businesses gives Colorado General Assembly a grade of B- for session
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Colorado’s largest association of small businesses gave the General Assembly’s just-completed session a grade of B- in a legislative report card issued this week. Split control of the House and Senate led to missed opportunities, said Tony Gagliardi, Colorado director for the National Federation of Independent Business, which counts 7,000 members in the state. He…
