The US Census Bureau says there are 30m small businesses. They're wrong | Gene Marks

Only a third of these reported ‘businesses’ have actual employees – the rest just report extra income on their tax returns

For years, whenever someone asked me how many small businesses there are in the US I always have the same response. “About 30m,” I say. Why? Because that’s what the US Census Bureau says. Actually, the number is even more. It’s 32,570,855. But wait … is this really accurate? Are these really small business owners like me?

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