AICPA endorses legislation to assist small business by creating uniform national standard for nonresident state income tax withholding.

The AICPA has endorsed legislation that would create a uniform national standard for state withholding of nonresident income tax, which would be especially helpful to small and large CPA firms, as well as to businesses.

"We need a simple and uniform system governing how states apply taxes to nonresidents doing business in their states," said James Metzler, AICPA Vice President--Small Firm Interests. "Recordkeeping can be voluminous under the current regulatory scheme."

He said the AICPA statement submitted to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law for the hearing record on the hearing on H.R. 3359, the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act o[ 2007, outlines the difficulties businesses face.

Metzler explained that 41 states impose a personal income tax on wages and...

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