“Effective March 9, 2012, the Secretary of State issued a new regulation effectively eliminating the
home-based business exemption for any business that is an LLC or corporation. This change is a
$200 per year penalty on a small business, run out of a home, earning less than $26,000 per year,
if that business was incorporated.” – Cassandra G. Jones, Esq., Houghton Jones, APC

Sign the Petition to the 2013 Nevada Legislature urging it to "Restore the Exemption"

In the state with the highest unemployment rate and suffering from an ongoing economic collapse, government should be encouraging small business start-ups, not penalizing them!

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Whereas the Nevada Legislature specifically established an exemption from the state’s business license fee for qualified small, home-based businesses, and

Whereas a small home-based business in Nevada may legally operate as either a sole proprietorship or as a corporation, and

Whereas Secretary of State Ross Miller unsuccessfully lobbied the Nevada Legislature to repeal the small, home-based business exemption for certain businesses during the 2011 legislative session, and

Whereas after being denied his request to repeal the exemption, Secretary Miller unilaterally imposed rules and regulations that effectively repealed the exemption for some 60,000 small, home-based Nevada businesses, and

Whereas Secretary Miller’s end-run around the Legislature has been challenged in court by the Nevada Resident Agents Association, and

Whereas in March 2012, Secretary Miller persuaded four Democrats on the Nevada Legislative Subcommittee on Regulations to approve his administrative repeal of the exemption over the objections of the sub-committee’s two Republicans, and

Whereas as a result, an estimated 60,000 Nevada businesses are now being assessed the $200 annual fee despite the clear wishes and intent of the full Nevada Legislature and despite an ongoing and unresolved lawsuit challenging the Secretary of State’s actions,

Therefore I hereby urge the 2013 Nevada Legislature to override Secretary Miller’s and Subcommittee on Regulations’ actions and restore the exemption from the state’s business license fee for those 60,000 small, home-based businesses as per the Legislature’s original intent in passing the exemption in the first place.