The government affairs team at MITA has been very active following Governor Snyder’s special message in late October.  Given the rapidly changing environment, MITA staff felt it was necessary to provide members an update on the status of the efforts to secure additional infrastructure dollars. The governor’s message called for

This morning, President Obama, signed into law the Three Percent Withholding Repeal and Job Creation Act.  The law permanently repeals the requirement that federal, state, and large local governments begin withholding three percent of each payment of $10,000 or more to a contractor after Jan. 1, 2013. Today’s bill signing