A small business concern refers to an enterprise that is privately owned, managed and operated. This definition is mostly used in the United States. The enterprise is entitled to pay taxes to the government and the profits realized from the operations go directly to the owner of the enterprise. A small business concern may be owned by individuals, partnerships, corporations or joint ventures. In terms of employees, a concern is one that has less than 500 employees. They are also not allowed to be dominant in their field of operation, but should be seen to be in collaboration or competition with other enterprises.
A concern should not operate as a monopoly. Many consultant and small retail outlets and enterprises meet these qualifications. A concern is supposed to be certified and to go through the certification process, one of these two things must be done. One, either completes a concern representation form or gets a consultant to represent it in a specific contract; Certification allows the concern to operate legally and also for it to be able to represent itself in legal, social as well as economic or financial matters that may arise.
Self representation is only possible if a certain criteria is met. The second thing is that the gross annual income of the business concern should not exceed six million dollars per year, given the average of three years. For women based concerns, or veteran owned ones, at least 51% of ownership must be represented by the women fraternity. As for the veteran one, it must have at least one honorably discharged veteran running it.
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