Internaional Franchise Association | 5 jobs from franchising in their local communities and how di erent policies – whether it’s taxes, health care or workforce policies – impact IFA members. “We work to advocate advances in those policies, and work to remove policies that provides too much regulation from our perspective on the business environment of franchising,” he says. eir Government Relations Department achieves this by monitoring legislative and regulatory activity, conducting lobbying and grassroots campaigns, participating in national and local coalitions, creating forums and educational tools for experts in the franchising community, and promoting positive relations between franchisors, franchisees, and elected and appointed government o cials and employees. eir relationship with the federal government has been less than helpful recently, however, mainly due to tax rates and franchisors’ inability to start-up at exible rates. ere is an uncertainty surrounding tax rates because they will increase at the end of 2012 if U.S. Congress doesn’t act, Haller explains. “It’s creating a lot of apprehension from perspective investors and existing business owners about hiring more workers or expanding their business for next year and the years ahead,” he says. On the other side of the coin, a government policy the IFA was successful in in- uencing was the Small Business Jobs Act that was passed into law in 2010. ey lobbied for higher loan limits and higher loan guarantees as part of the bill. One of the IFA members even attended the bill signing at overy and growth
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