Four of the top-10 ranked problems in the survey are tax related. In total, the survey lists nine tax-related questions including federal and state taxes on business income, property taxes, tax complexity and frequent changes in federal tax laws and rules (Chart 2). If combined into one problem, the ranking would likely be different. NFIB’s Small Business Economic Trends ranked the overall burden of a generic “taxes” above the cost of insurance as the number one problem for a large portion of th