On Our Mind…Thank You!

​By Allison Just, Meeting & Governance Manager Thank you! We put out a challenge to rock social media with how awesome it is to work in insurance. Rock you did. Not once did I see an agent with a briefcase at a kitchen table (what I used to think of insurance before I joined Big I NY; my parents tidying up before our agent came to our house). What did I – and the rest of the social media world – see?Smiling faces. People with their dogs. Babies on laps (future agents, perhaps?). Bags of groceries being donated to a neighborhood charity. Posts about being thankful…

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Big ‘I’ Praises Reintroduction of Main Street Tax Certainty Act

​Legislation to make small business deduction permanent reintroduced in House and Senate. WASHINGTON, DC, February 26, 2021— The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I") is grateful for the reintroduction of the “Main Street Tax Certainty Act" in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Jason Smith (R-Missouri) and Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana). The legislation would make permanent a 20% deduction on qualified business income for some owners and shareholders of pass-through businesses.“The Big 'I' thanks Reps. Smith and Cuellar and Sen. Daines for their work to reintroduce the Main Street Tax Certainty Act,"…

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