Small Business Association of Michigan

LANSING ? The Small Business Association of Michigan praised the Legislature?s passage of a tax cut package for manufacturers. ?We should do all we can to help save the industries that are closing plants and eliminating jobs, but we must also nourish the fast-growing small businesses that are expanding their workforces and building the foundation

LANSING ? Nomination and application deadlines have been extended for the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch awards program. Companies to Dec. 31 with completed applications now due Jan. 11. The Michigan 50 Companies to Watch program is conducted in association with the Edward Lowe Foundation and is designed to celebrate second-stage entrepreneurs. Winners will be

LANSING ? Michigan small businesses can earn statewide recognition by entering this year?s Michigan 50 Companies to Watch awards program, underwritten by the Edward Lowe Foundation. The contest celebrates second-stage entrepreneurs. Companies can be nominated through Dec. 14. Completed applications are due Dec. 31. To be considered for selection as one of the 50 Companies

LANSING ? The Small Business Association of Michigan support portions of the $3 billion jobs and tax cut package announced Friday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. ?We?re underwhelmed by the tax cut piece but encouraged by the provisions that move us toward improving our entrepreneurial climate,? said SBAM President and CEO Rob Fowler. ?The additional $300

LANSING ? The Small Business Association of Michigan?s Board of Directors Friday voted to support a major new state tax reform concept, known as the Michigan Fair Tax, that would eliminate business taxation and instead tax goods and services only once and at the point of final purchase by the consumer. Rep. Fulton Sheen (R-Plainwell),

LANSING - Preventing the state sales tax from being applied to services is a high SBAM priority and one where SBAM has truly made a difference in the fight. SBAM?s strength is our educated grassroots membership working with our professional lobbying team to positively impact government regulations and laws. SBAM opposes government bureaucrats and legislators

LANSING - As Michigan grapples with the combined challenges of balancing our state budget, providing quality public services, and dealing with rising energy costs and the economic challenges of globalization, we would do well to give more thought to how entrepreneurialism can help. Take energy costs, for example. Many believe, as I do, that Michigan

LANSING - Of all the disagreements which have occurred over the last six months in Lansing, it appears an agreement has been reached on the $1 billion securitization of the state?s tobacco settlement, the Small Business Association of Michigan reports. Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema made a statement that the bill, which has already passed

LANSING ? Mark Clevey, vice president of the Small Business Association of Michigan?s Entrepreneurial Development Center, is joining the Advisory Board, Lear Entrepreneurial Program for Mechanical Engineering, at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield. The Lear Entrepreneurial Program addresses entrepreneurial management in start-up ventures and new business development in existing companies, and provides a vehicle for

LANSING ? Michigan House Tax Policy Chairman Fulton Sheen said last week that a new tax plan for Michigan businesses should be passed by the end of this month. Speaker Craig DeRoche promised the House would vote for a new tax proposal by Labor Day. He succeeded on delivering on his promise. The plan now