Legislation has been introduced in both houses of Congress to make permanent the income tax deduction provided to qualifying pass-through businesses which will expire in 2025 if Congress doesn’t act before then. NAW helped organize a business coalition letter supporting the legislation. Senate sponsor of the legislation, GOP Senator Steve Daines of Montana, issued a press release on his [...]

Today, the Partnership for Employer-Sponsored Coverage Coalition, which NAW helps manage, spearheaded two letters to both the House and Senate supporting the bipartisan Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act (H.R. 748), introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal the 40 percent excise tax on employer-sponsored coverage, known as the Cadillac Tax, and the Senate-introduced Jobs [...]

Distributors are stepping up to the challenges of our time, and our first-ever Facing the Forces of Change® challenge paper, Creating Innovations and Shaping the Future of Business: A Look at Commerce, Technology and Human Forces in Distribution, shares essential insights that you can act on now.  As NAW and NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence Fellow Mark Dancer work on the next Facing [...]

Companies which have been selling within or into California have been dealing with compliance with the complicated Proposition 65 regulations for years.  Those rules have been updated, with the new provisions taking effect on August 31, 2018. Click here to read NAW's new Legal Advisory, "New Proposition 65 Warning Requirements Go into [...]

This week, the House passed a bi-partisan bill which included a two-year delay of the Health Insurance Tax (HIT) for 2020 and 2021. The passage of this bill is a major step forward for millions of small businesses and their employees who face undue costs from the tax.  NAW will continue working with the Senate by urging them to take up this two-year delay as soon as possible and provide small [...]