Trade “Customs” Act Signed by President – New Occupation Reporting Burden Not Included
On February 24, 2016 President Obama signed into law the Trade “Customs” bill otherwise known as the “Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015’’. The full text of the Act as signed by the President. This legislation was the last of a series of trade related bills that were enacted in 2015. The Senate passed version of the legislation [...]
President Obama’s FY 2017 Budget Seeks National Employment Classification Standards, Including for Workers’ Comp. and Unemployment Comp.
The Obama FY 2017 proposes once again to address “misclassification” of employee issues and independent contractor issues, citing not only the need for uniformity for federal employment tax administration, reporting and enforcement, but also for state based determinations for unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation purposes. See https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/Documents/General-Explanations-FY2017.pdf for details. The proposal seeks a single federally determined definition limiting any “safe [...]
CACI Board Opposes $25 billion Universal Health Care Amendment
Denver, Colo.--The CACI Board of Directors this week voted to oppose Amendment 69, a ballot initiative that would create a state governmental universal health-care system that would mandate $25 billion in new taxes on workers, employers and taxpayers in its first full year of implementation. The system would be called ColoradoCare. Amendment 69 has been approved for the November 2016 [...]