Brady - The S Corporation Association

Our Chairman’s New Year Message

2015 was a terrific year for the S Corporation Association. We saw the shorter, five-year built-in gains recognition period made permanent, we organized the Main Street business community into a coherent advocacy force, and we successfully blocked misguided efforts to enact President Obama’s corporate-only tax reform plan.

For 2016, our goal is to build on these successes to ensure more legislative wins this year and beyond.

That means educating policymakers on how taxes on S corps already went up sharply in 2013 and working to enact legislation to repeal that tax hike.
It means building out our pass-through business coalition to ensure that …

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admin2016-01-22T17:43:11+00:00January 22, 2016|

Brady Elected Chairman of Ways and Means

On Wednesday, the Republican Steering Committee tapped Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) to succeed Speaker Ryan as the committee’s chairman. Both he and his challenger, Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH), are strong allies of S corporations and pass-through businesses, so we excited to see him take on the gavel.

What does Brady’s ascension mean for tax policy? The Wall Street Journal has an interview with the new Chairman this morning, where Brady makes clear he wants to move a robust tax extender package (yea!) this fall then spend next year pushing the “step one, step two” plan for tax reform outlined by …

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admin2019-02-01T19:59:03+00:00November 6, 2015|

What’s On Deck for the Rest of 2015

Speaker Boehner had a three step plan at the beginning of October: 1) Resign at the end of the month; 2) Clear the legislative decks of controversial and difficult items; 3) Turn the gavel over to a new Speaker to begin their tenure with a clean slate.

Looking back, he pretty much pulled it off. Sure, the Speakership went to Paul Ryan, not Kevin McCarthy, and not all the tough legislative items cleared Congress, but the simple fact is that Speaker Ryan begins his term with a much more manageable set of issues than the laundry list of must pass items …

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admin2019-02-01T19:59:04+00:00November 2, 2015|