Please find the link to the Small Business California (SB-Cal) Survey of California small businesses. Last year it received 630 responses from every county in the state. Please take a moment to complete and forward to other small business owners you know. The results will form the SB-Cal agenda for 2009.
Survey Link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228QR44U46V
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Each year Small Business California does an annual survey of small businesses around the state to determine its agenda. Last year it survey received over 600 responses and had at least one business respond from every county in the state.
They would like to ask you to take a look at last years survey and forward to them any questions you think they should add as well as questions you think they should delete. You can access all of their surveys over the years by going to their website www.smallbusinesscalifornia.org.
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From our friends over at Small Business California -
You all have probably seen that it appears Prop 8 is going to pass. Did you know however that regardless of the passage of Prop 8 that if you have a Domestic Partner of one of your employees and they are paying there health insurance premiums through your group plan that the Federal government does not allow a deduction of the premiums from the Domestic partners income tax. In fact they will impute a cost on this. This is also true if you have a same sex marriage.
The State of California does allow a deduction.
I don’t want to confuse the issue but I have found a number of small businesses treat the money the employee pays to the group plan for their employees and maybe children as if it automatically is pretax dollars. This is not the case unless you have a 125 plan or maybe a health reimbursement account set up.
Please consult your accountant on this.
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