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California Self-Employment Tax Initiative (CA-SETI)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
12:30pm-4:00pm PDT
Los Angeles, CA
Sponsored by Citibank and AT&T
Filing the Schedule C is the single most important entry point for acknowledging and formalizing microbusinesses in the US, and it represents an opportunity to reach low and moderate income entrepreneurs who could benefit from business assistance, microloans, and in some cases from Earned Income Tax Credit. It can also function as an annual tool for helping new owners understand their business’ finances. Right now, microenterprise development organizations are reaching less than 1% of lower income entrepreneurs in our state. Additionally, there are business owners operating in the informal economy who, with your help, could formalize their businesses and get into the Social Security system. There are an estimated 2 million low income and start- up self employed businesses in California. All of them must file taxes, but most have no place to turn for the comprehensive business tax preparation and planning assistance they need to "get their businesses right".
The CA-SETI is an exciting new strategy for reaching large numbers of entrepreneurs who could benefit from business assistance and microloans. Gene Severens, director of the national SETI through the Corporation for Enterprise Development in Washington DC, will present this strategy and current pilot projects taking place. CAMEO will facilitate discussion on its possible applications to California, including increased potential for earned income for microenterprise development organizations.
CAMEO is promoting this strategy and seeking funding for demonstration projects in California. We intend to deliver on our promise to help you achieve both Scale and Sustainability. Come and check out this provocative approach that will help you reach new markets for your services and be a potential earned income strategy as well!
Read a Background Paper on the SETI Strategy
When
Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 12:30pm-4:00pm PDT
Where
AT&T Executive Briefing Center, 1150 Olive Street, Los Angeles, CA
Cost
$35 per person (includes networking lunch)
Accommodations
CAMEO does not have a room block reserved for this single day training. However, our hotel suggestions are listed below. All hotels are within one mile of the AT&T Executive Briefing Center and range in rates between $134 - $249 per night. Hotels are listed in order of room rates, lowest to highest. Click on the hotel name to be directed to their website.
Figueroa Hotel
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Hilton Checkers Los Angeles
Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown Hotel
Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza Your Presenter
Gene Severens
Director, CFED's National Fund for Enterprise Development (NFED)
Eugene Severens founded the Rural Enterprise Assistance Project (REAP), a microlending and training program serving rural Nebraska in 1989. He went on to start the Nebraska Microenterprise Partnership Fund, a successful statewide microenterprise intermediary and CDFI which supports microenterprise programs in Nebraska. He is currently Director of CFED’s National Fund for Enterprise Development, where he works on the State Microenterprise Systems project and directs CFED’s Self-employment Tax Initiative (SETI), a project which explores how the tax code is and potentially could be used as an important new direct delivery systems for microbusinesses. SETI recently (Fall 2006) disbursed a series of mini-grants to work with community tax preparation and microenterprise programs to explore the potential of tax preparation and planning as an important new products for the field.
**Note: This training is taking place in partnership with "Opportunity Recognition Strategies" which is being presented in the morning at the same location. The morning and afternoon sessions are both independent trainings and can be attended individually for $35 each (both include a networking lunch), or you may attend the full day of training for $50. Click here for more information on Opportunity Recognition Strategies presented by Al Osborne.
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