owner-manager | owner manager | owner/manager | business owner-manager | business owner/manager | business entrepreneur/owner/manager | entrepreneur/owner-manager | business entrepreneur | entrepreneur

small business [ small enterprise ]

3 for 1 small business investment provision [ three for one small business investment provision ]

special scheme for small enterprises | special scheme for small undertakings

Small Business Financing Profiles - Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in British Columbia [ Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in British Columbia ]

small business | small or medium enterprise | small or medium-sized business | small or medium-sized enterprise | SME

of business owner-manager | of owner-manager | owner-manager | entrepreneurial | entrepreneur

small and medium-sized enterprises [ EBIC | European Business and Innovation Centre | European Observatory for SMEs | small and medium-sized businesses | small and medium-sized undertakings | SMEs | SMUs ]

executive agency [ Chafea | Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency | EACEA | EACI | EAHC | EASME | Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency | ERCEA | European Research Council Executive Agency | Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation | Executive Agency for Health and Consumers | Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises | INEA | Innovation and Networks Executive Agency | REA | Research Executive Agency | TEN-T EA | Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency ]

As an estimated 6 million small business owners will retire over the next ten years, Europe cannot afford to risk losing these businesses due simply to difficulties in business transfers and to a lack of appreciation of the traditional role of family business.

Instead of lowering employment insurance premiums, instead of cutting taxes, instead of deregulating the banking industry to increase competition which would benefit all consumers and instead of taking those measures that would clearly have a direct and immediate benefit on every small business owner in Canada, the government is preoccupied with changing the name of the Small Business Loans Act to the the Canada Small Business Financing Act.

Highlights the importance of taking into account the differences between micro, small and large producers; notes the need to develop suitable conditions and tools for ‘prosumers’ (active energy consumers, such as households, both owners and tenants, institutions and small businesses that engage in renewable energy production either on their own or collectively through cooperatives, other social enterprises or aggregations) to contribute to energy transition and facilitate their integration into the energy market; recommends reducing to an absolute minimum the administrative barriers to new self-generation capacity, in particular by rem ...[+++]oving market and grid access restrictions; suggests shortening and simplifying authorisation procedures by moving to a simple notification requirement; suggests that the revision of the renewable energy directive could include specific provisions to remove barriers and promote community/cooperative energy schemes via ‘one-stop shops’ dealing with project permits and providing financial and technical expertise; encourages the Member States to make use of de minimis exemptions under the European Energy and Environment State Aid Guidelines, so that small and medium-sized projects continue to benefit from dynamic feed in tariffs, exempting them from complex auctioning processes.

The increase in the lifetime capital gains exemption to $800,000 for small business owners, farmers and fishers, indexing the new exemption limit to inflation, is also very welcome news to the small business owners in my riding.