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On the recordJune 21, 2023
If you visit any Main Street in America, you will see that small businesses are struggling. Today's cost of living crisis has made everything from supplies to labor more expensive for mom-and-pop stores all across America. Not only are small businesses struggling because of high prices, but Washington mandates are forcing small businesses to waste precious time processing paperwork instead of serving their workers and customers. Right now, small businesses are forced to send millions of Americans paper copies of health insurance reporting forms every year, when the vast majority of individuals don't use this form. Every taxpayer knows this form I am talking about. While it is known as a Form 1095-C, it is one that you get in the mail and have absolutely no idea what to do with. It looks like this, and you put it in the pile with your other tax forms and then realize when it comes time to file your taxes, you don't actually even need it. In fact, only 1.4 percent of American workers and their families may need to use this form. The Paperwork Burden Reduction Act is a bipartisan bill, introduced by Representative Panetta and myself, that will put an end to this wasteful practice. This bill saves small business owners time and money by relieving them of mailing outdated paperwork that only exists because Congress mandates it. This mandate doesn't even make sense anymore.…
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Jason Smith
Republican · Missouri

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