Saturday, May 14, 2011

5 Ways Federal Government Can Boost Entrepreneurship

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-feld/5-ways-federal-government_b_860514.html#s277298&title=Make_Taxes_Simple

Make Taxes Simple
Incent people to invest in startups. While there are several well understood tax policies that could be implemented, the simplest is to provide long term tax breaks for individuals to invest in new startup companies. As with anything tax related, there are endless politics involved and many of the things that actual get rolled out are so obscure that they either never get implemented or are to difficult for investors to understand. Make it simple - eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e. risk of 100% loss of investment) in a private company with less than 100 employees.

No comments:

Post a Comment