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High Personal Tax Levels Top Concerns of America’s Largest Private Employer, Family Businesses, New Study Finds

New Data from Family Enterprise USA Annual Family Business Survey 2023 Show Taxes, Both Personal and Business, Are Biggest Worries

Sky-high income and business taxes are the top issues America’s largest private employer, family businesses, point to when looking at this year’s economic challenges, a new study finds.

This, according to a Family Enterprise USA Family Business Survey 2023, burdensome taxes top a list of worries family business of all sizes face today. The next greatest worry is finding labor, and then training them to do a job effectively.

The survey assessed a cross section of America’s multi-generational family-owned industries, contributing $7.7 trillion annually to the U.S. gross domestic product. Family businesses account for 83.3 million jobs, or 59 percent of the country’s private workforce, according to research.

Taxes and tax policies were found as the biggest challenges, with 50 percent of respondents saying high personal income taxes were the number one concern, up from 45 percent a year ago, a 10 percent jump.

Some 19 percent of the respondents said the “most important” tax issue was to reduce personal income taxes, while 18 percent said reducing ... (continue reading)
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