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What Many Small Businesses Call Their Biggest Challenge

Patrick Tyrrell •   March 7, 2016

The 2015 Small Business Credit Survey Report on Employer Firms, released March 3 by seven Federal Reserve Banks, contains disturbing news.

What Many Small Businesses Call Their Biggest ChallengeTwenty-two percent of small businesses with annual revenues over $10 million identified compliance with government regulations as the biggest challenge they faced over the past 12 months. That’s up from only four percent in a similar but smaller survey last year.

Participants in the 2015 survey ranked government regulations as more problematic than credit availability, cash flow, the cost of running a business, taxes, and other problems.

For an overview of how government regulations continue to climb, see The Heritage Foundation’s “Red Tape Rising: Six Years of Escalating Regulation Under Obama.”

 

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Patrick Tyrrell is a research coordinator in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for International Trade and Economics.

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