2019 Rhode Island Small Business Economic Summit

Unseen by most Rhode Islanders, the Rhode Island Small Business Economic Summit (Summit), an annual meeting between the business community and our state’s elected officials, is one of the most influential gatherings of the year. The 13th annual Summit was held on the Bryant University Campus on Friday morning, ‘Cap’ Willey started his list: “These include personal income tax reform, creation of the tax policy office in the Department of Revenue, state pension reform, property tax cap, corporate tax reform, estate tax reform, the repeal of franchise tax, increasing the direct expenses provisions to match federal limits, reducing minimum tax reporting dollars, enacting some property tax reform, car tax, providing tax relief for retirement income, we’ve also held the line on broad based tax increases, we fought back efforts to impose binding arbitration on labor agreements…”