Finance expert Mike Periu on tax increases ahead for small business owners.
President Obama held his first press conference in 8 months yesterday. Among the topics covered by reporters was income tax increases relating to fiscal cliff negotiations. The President indicated that a key component of his position for this negotiation and a tenant of his second term will be to increase income taxes on households earning more than $250,000 per year. It appears that this tax increase will happen no matter what, since failure to reach a deal will lead to the same result. The only question is which taxes will go up and by how much.
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About Mike Periu
Mike is a seasoned executive with experience in small business finance and management. He is the founder of Proximo, LLC a leading provider of corporate, consumer and small business education and training services with an emphasis on finance and technology.
Mike Periu is also a leading national voice for individual empowerment through financial education and entrepreneurship. He has been interviewed over 500 times in national and international media, including NBC, Univision, CNN en español, Telemundo, HITN, TVE, RTE, SBS, MegaTV and others.
Mike writes regularly for American Express OpenForum, Yahoo! Finanzas and is a Huffington Post contributor.
Mike has degrees in Finance and International Business from Georgetown University. He is on the Board of Directors of the Council for Economic Education and was a Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation’s Labs for Enterprise Creation.
