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199A on the Line as House Prepares to Vote
With the House preparing to vote as early as today on the Senate-passed reconciliation bill, any lawmakers still undecided should take a close look at what’s at stake for Main Street businesses across the country. Absent congressional action, these businesses will be hit with an unprecedented tax hike, putting millions of jobs and billions in wages and economic growth at risk.
The urgency here stems from the looming expiration of the Section 199A deduction, which sunsets …
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Main Street Supports Senate Tax Bill
A strong coalition of Main Street trades came out today in strong support of the Big Beautiful Bill pending before the Senate. A coalition letter signed by more than 90 trade associations reads:
This legislation builds on the foundation laid by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and advances a forward-looking, pro-growth tax agenda that supports tens of millions of Main Street enterprises. Critically, it would provide long-overdue certainty to the more than 95 percent …
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Big Main Street Win on SALT
Here’s a good news story to kick off the weekend – Punchbowl News reports that lawmakers are striking the onerous SALT limitation from the reconciliation package as part of a broader compromise between the House and Senate:
The outlet also reports that the White House played a key role in helping broker the deal:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is briefing Senate Republicans behind closed doors …
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Main Street Backs 199A Expansion
With the reconciliation bill process reaching its final stages,120 trade associations today called on the Senate to incorporate a key part of the House-passed bill: an expansion of the 199A deduction from 20 to 23 percent. As the letter states:
Expanding Section 199A will help preserve tax parity between pass-through businesses and larger public corporations while helping ensure the Senate bill does not raise taxes on millions of Main Street businesses.
The Section 199A deduction plays …
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WSJ is Wrong on SALT Parity
To whoever signed off on yesterday’s Wall Street Journal editorial attacking the ability of Main Street businesses to deduct their SALT payments – just like C corporations do – S-Corp has a bridge to sell you. Seriously, you got played.
The piece starts off wrong and gets worse from there. Here’s what it says:
Senate Republicans appear to be acquiescing to demands by House Republicans from high-tax states to raise the $10,000 limit on the state-and-local …
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Setting the Record Straight on 199A
Critics of the Section 199A passthrough deduction are back in full swing. A recent release by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) claims the House-passed proposal to extend and modestly expand the 199A deduction “disproportionately benefits the rich.”
Senate and House tax-writers need to ignore the critics and support 199A, including the House proposal to increase the deduction to 23 percent. The Wyden release may generate headlines, but it doesn’t change the underlying …
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Main Street Tax Relief Still Popular
Punchbowl News is out with a story on how the reconciliation bill before the Senate polls poorly. The DC media loves to throw shade at the BBB. Something that definitely polls well is extending the TCJA’s policies benefiting Main Street businesses.
As last month’s Winston Group poll found:
From the electorate’s perspective, government spending is by far the bigger problem than not enough revenue coming from taxes (70-21). Independent voters also see spending as the …
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Avoiding Tax Hikes in the Big Beautiful Bill
The Main Street community needs the Big Beautiful Bill to succeed. Absent congressional action, taxes on pass-through businesses of all sizes will go up sharply. The same applies to most families. So the Main Street Employers Coalition supports efforts in both the House and the Senate to extend the sunsetting provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Comparing the two approaches, the House bill is more friendly to small- and family-owned businesses. It increases …
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