Obama Small Business

18 Tax reductions for small businesses.
· A new small-business health care tax credit. 
· Obama created tax credits for small businesses for hiring veterans, ranging from $2,400 to $9,600 (Hire 


Heroes Act of 2011).
· He created a small business tax credit for hiring unemployed workers in 2010.
· He created a small business deduction for health care expenses for the self-employed in 2010.
· Temporary extension of bonus depreciation tax incentives to support new investment. 
· 75 percent exclusion of small-business capital gains, for stock acquired in 2009 and 2010. 
· Temporary expansion of limits on small-business expensing. 
· Five-year carryback of net operating losses, available through fall 2009. 
· Reduction of the built-in gains holding period for small businesses to seven years, from 10, in 2009 and 


2010.
· Temporary small-business estimated tax payment relief. Tax provisions in the 2010 Small Business Jobs 

Act (both The Agenda and the I.R.S. have published summaries): 
· 100 percent exclusion of small-business capital gains, for stock acquired in late 2010 and 2011. 
· A further increase to the expensing limit to $500,000 for 2011 (in 2012, the limit falls to $139,000). 
· A further extension of 50 percent bonus depreciation through 2010. 
· Tax relief and simplification for cellphone deductions. 
· An increase in the deduction for entrepreneurs' start-up expenses in 2010. 
· A five-year carry-back of general business credits in 2010. 
· Lower penalties for failing to report listed (that is, abusive) tax shelters. 
· Increasing bonus depreciation to 100 percent for 2011 (from the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance 

Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010, the compromise law that keeps the Bush income tax cuts in place through this year; for 2012, bonus depreciation falls to 50 percent and then expires).