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NFIB Reaction to MD Senate Leaders’ Push for PFML, New Payroll Tax

NFIB Reaction to MD Senate Leaders’ Push for PFML, New Payroll Tax

February 24, 2022 Last Edit: June 5, 2025

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NFIB Reaction to MD Senate Leaders' Push for PFML, New Payroll Tax

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Mike O’Halloran, NFIB State Director in Maryland, 301-335-1063 / mikea.ohalloran@nfib.org

ANNAPOLIS (Feb. 24, 2022) – Today, leaders in the Maryland Senate announced that they intend to move forward on a new paid family and medical leave proposal including a new payroll tax. Mike O’Halloran, state director for NFIB in Maryland, had the following to say about the announcement:

“It’s very disappointing to hear senate leaders announce their intention to press forward with a bill that will have an outsized and negative impact on small businesses and their employees. The fact is, small business owners do everything they can to meet the needs of their workers, especially when they have family members in need of palliative care. But this bill creates a payroll tax that will cost owners and workers at a time when they least can afford it.”

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For more than 75 years, NFIB has been the voice of small business, advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals. NFIB is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and member driven. Since our founding in 1943, NFIB has been exclusively dedicated to small and independent businesses and remains so today. For more information, please visit www.NFIB.com

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