“As a small business owner, Bill Feinberg knew the health care bill that was passed into law would cause serious damages to his company and their future growth. His story inspired others to get involved and ultimately led him to Capitol Hill, where he was asked to submit testimony to the House Small Business Committee.”

Read what business owners and business leaders around the country are saying regarding the 1099 mandate in the health care law.

“For 16 years, we have worked hard to establish our credibility and expertise in selling numismatic items. We are a small company with many faithful customers. The requirements of the 1099 mandate will put us out of business. Please repeal this mandate.”
– Dave and Cheryl Weaver, owners of Weaver Coin Auction, Easton, Missouri.

“I don’t understand the need for it. It’s just more paperwork that serves no purpose. But it will cost me more to comply. They need to repeal it.”
–- Roxanne Taylor, owner of New York Oil Recovery Co., Brooklyn, NY.

“It’s a costly provision that doesn’t do anything to help us grow our business or add jobs. It needs to be repealed. The bottom line is we need less government intervention; not more.”
– Charles Armitage, CEO of Uncle Charley’s Sausage, Vandergrift, PA.

“The 1099 mandate hits small businesses disproportionately hard and it does nothing to improve the competitiveness of U.S. businesses. I have major concerns about security and identity theft with the prospects of this many SSNs and EINs floating around. I will be writing and calling our U.S. Senators and Congressmen in the areas that we operate to ask them to support a full repeal.”
– John Olson, The Chief Financial Officer for Willard Agri-Service, Frederick, MD.

“Unlike the Federal government which can print money and hire people at a whim, small business will be unnecessarily burdened to follow the guidelines of the covertly inserted 1099 provision in the mostly un-read health reform law Congress passed last year. Increasing the tax reporting paperwork 12-fold for small companies like Appalachian Log Structures would require us to hire additional staff. We're in the housing industry and in the current distressful economic climate that was caused by irresponsible Government oversight and thoughtless banking regulations; we are not able to add to our staff to cover this new requirement.”
– Donald Parsons, the Co-Owner of Appalachian Log Structures, Gaffney, SC and Ripley, WV.

“This is another regulation that will force small businesses to deal with more red tape instead of growing their businesses and creating jobs. Small businesses like ours are doing several jobs at once to remain competitive in this recession and government should be encouraging economic growth, not stifling it.”
– Sandra Westlund-Deenihan, President of Quality Float Works, Schaumburg, IL.

“As a small business owner, I do not have the luxury of having a staff to assist in bookkeeping and reporting. Any additional requirements, no matter how small, require additional time away from my job which is sales. The added burden of further 1099 reporting requirements along with a weak economy will threaten my ability to stay in business. I would like to ask Congress to repeal the 1099 mandate and reconsider any legislation that would further impede the ability of business to grow and pull us out of this economic recession.”
– Joanne Nelson, Owner of Mountain Man Nut & Fruit Co., Rifle, CO

“As I understand the requirement, among other things, I will have to have a book keeper total all the amounts we spend on office supplies, computer paper, etc. then report that to some agency who will then try to correlate our purchases with hundreds of similar accounts and then be able to reconcile that to what, vendor reports?? It’ll never accomplish anything but adding costs to my business.”
–Rudy H. Walldorf, President of Herman Walldorf & Co., Inc., Chattanooga, TN

“This law will create one job in my company; a new full time position just to do this unnecessary burdensome work. Of course, that only reduces my resources to really grow my business. Please repeal the 1099 reporting mandate.”
– Ricky Young, Owner of Young's Auto Center & Salvage / Car Crushers, Benson, NC

“The 1099 reporting mandate would add significant cost to our company. One thing that goes over looked is that we will also be required to have W-9's on ALL vendors. I ran the numbers based on figures from 2010 to include the 1099 mandate, and it would require us to send 8 times the amount of current form 1099s. Not to mention that the IRS increased the fines by an additional 50%, from $50.00 to $100.00 per 1099 return. By the way, will I need to send the IRS a form 1099?? Please repeal this bad idea.”
– Lori Smith, President of Artisan Restoration, Cincinnati, OH

“The Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce thinks this is a classic case of unintended consequences. Imagine picking up donuts every Friday for your staff meeting and then having to send the donut shop a 1099. Or how about a 1009 for your cell phone bill. Does the U.S. Post Office get a bill if we use over $600 a year in postage? We hope that the committee will see the challenge this would present to small businesses on both sides of the transaction. Keeping track and then sending 1099s to your vendors and then the flood of 1099s you would receive from your customers. Small businesses need time to run their business; not to spend it on paperwork.”
– John C. Gregory, President/CEO of Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, Lincoln, RI

“Increased costs from the 1099 reporting mandate will heavily penalize honest taxpayers, creating an even more unlevel playing field for those of us who pay our fair share of taxes.”
– Jeanette Aultz, Owner of Costumes by Jeanette, Brooklyn, NY

“This mandate is going to cause a tremendous burden on small companies such as ours which has a very small accounting staff. My time is better spent on operating our company than trying to capture revenue reporting so that the IRS can go after taxpayers who continue to avoid taxation or under reporting of income.”
– Peter Louviere, CFO of Vision Communications, Larose, LA

“Instead of focusing on my business, this mandate saps my precious resources to fill out mounds of paperwork for the government. I hope Congress does the right thing and repeals it.”
– Robert Clager, President of Rental Time General Rental Center Inc., Gibsonia, PA

U.S. Chamber Releases Bipartisan Poll Highlighting Small Business Leaders’ Concerns with Health Care Law

(23 Sep 2010) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Six months after enactment of the new health reform law, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today released a national bipartisan poll of small business leaders, shedding light on the uncertainty employers are feeling as a result of the new law. The poll of 590 small business leaders was conducted September 18-20 by Frank Luntz and Doug Schoen.

“Nearly 8 in 10 small business leaders expect their costs to increase as a result of the new law, and a majority say they will be less likely to hire new employees and more likely to reduce current health care benefits” said Randy Johnson, senior vice president of Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits for the U.S. Chamber. “This poll shows that the very small business leaders who are being counted on to grow jobs are deeply unsettled about the present and concerned about the future, and a tremendous amount of that uncertainty is due to the new health care law.” Read more. 
>> Listen to the conference call. (mp3)  >> Read the transcript. (PDF)

(6 Sep 2010) 56% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill; 39% Say Repeal Is Likely