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NYSSPE-Suffolk Chapter offers many seminars and events throughout the year. Since 1951, we have provided professional engineers services and have assisted them in achieving their goals. Our experience and commitment to excellence have earned us the reputation as the best networking in the area.

NSPE Achieves Repeal of Burdensome Withholding Tax

The House last night voted in favor of final passage of H.R. 674, which would repeal a requirement that federal, state, and certain local governments withhold as tax 3% of all payments made to government contractors. The bill now heads to the president's desk, where he is expected to sign it into law.

The requirement would have caused cash flow problems for engineering firms, whose profit margins are often less than 3%, and cost professional engineers the vital funds they need to conduct business.

Since the tax law’s passage in 2006, NSPE has been working with the Government Withholding Relief Coalition and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to repeal the withholding mandate. NSPE also sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI-4) in support of the repeal.

In addition to NSPE’s advocacy of H.R. 674, NSPE members responded to an NSPE Legislative Action Center alert asking them to contact their senators in support of the bill. Your grassroots efforts helped build a critical mass of opinion that ensured the bill passed the Senate, ultimately enabling its success.

Read NSPE’s blog on the repeal here.

2011 NYSSPE-SUFFOLK
Project of the Year:

CR16, Portion Road from Ronkonkoma Avenue to CR97 Nicolls Road, Lake Ronkonkoma and Holbrook, NY

Suffolk County DPW, Commissioner Gilbert Anderson, P.E.

and

Lockwood, Kessler & Bartlett, Inc.

2011 NYSSPE-SUFFOLK
Professional Engineer in Education

Michael C. Simon. P.E.

2011 NYSSPE-SUFFOLK
Professional Engineer in Government:

Christopher Bruno, P.E.

2011 NYSSPE-SUFFOLK
Steven J. Pirrelli Award

Thomas J. Petracca. P.E.

Suffolk Engineers in the News

NSPE PEG E-News article from January, 2011:

http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/nspepeg/issues/2011-01-24.html

PE Magazine, the national publication of NSPE, November 2010 issue:

http://www.nspe.org/PEmagazine/10/pe_1110_Waiting.html

June, 2009 edition of PE Magazine

http://www.nspe.org/PEmagazine/pe_0609_What.html

Our Past Seminars & Events:

Seminars: At NYSSPE-Suffolk Chapter, you receive the opportunity to see behind some of Suffolk counties engineering treasures.  Our past seminars include a tour of the Greenport Village power plant, Electrical Code for One and Two Family Dewllings, Electrical Grounding, and the East Side Tunnel Entrance.  See photos of past seminars on our Chapter News page..

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Our group is always evolving as the needs or our members change and as new opportunities are created in the market. You can rest assured that, as a member of NYSSPE-Suffolk Chapter, you will enjoy the latest code, technology and developments in the industry.

Local News:

NSPE Achieves Repeal of Burdensome Withholding Tax

The House last night voted in favor of final passage of H.R. 674, which would repeal a requirement that federal, state, and certain local governments withhold as tax 3% of all payments made to government contractors. The bill now heads to the president's desk, where he is expected to sign it into law.

The requirement would have caused cash flow problems for engineering firms, whose profit margins are often less than 3%, and cost professional engineers the vital funds they need to conduct business.

Since the tax law’s passage in 2006, NSPE has been working with the Government Withholding Relief Coalition and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to repeal the withholding mandate. NSPE also sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI-4) in support of the repeal.

In addition to NSPE’s advocacy of H.R. 674, NSPE members responded to an NSPE Legislative Action Center alert asking them to contact their senators in support of the bill. Your grassroots efforts helped build a critical mass of opinion that ensured the bill passed the Senate, ultimately enabling its success.

Read NSPE’s blog on the repeal here.