Promoting pre-revenue small business innovation as fundamental to the long-term growth of the U.S. economy.

The Coalition of Small Business Innovators (CSBI) is a national, non-partisan coalition of organizations dedicated to stimulating sustained, private investment in small companies focusing on the development of transformative, life-changing new technologies.

  • “Taking legislative steps and thinking about ways that we can actually improve access to capital for emerging companies that are actually doing the most innovative research is absolutely critical to insuring our long term success.”

    Gil Van Bokkelen, Athersys

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  • The Payroll R&D Credit, established five years ago this past December, for the first time allowed pre-revenue innovators to take a portion of their R&D credit against their payroll tax obligation. The Credit served as a recognition from Congress that income tax credits provide no.....

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  • CSBI supports a U.S. tax code that recognizes innovation as a crucial part of the 21st century American economy. Targeted reforms to the passive activity loss rules under Section 469, treatment of net operating losses under Section 382, and small business capital gains tax rates......