SBA Red Tape Hotline

Learn more about the SBA's Office of Advocacy's Red Tape Hotline, a resource created to document cases where federal agencies may be disregarding the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) and the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA).

This hotline is specifically for issues related to federal regulations. Clients are encouraged to respond if they are experiencing significant expenses due to a federal regulation, if a federal rule is in conflict with state or local regulations, if a regulation is unnecessarily complicated and could be complied with more easily, or if the penalties for non-compliance are disproportionately severe compared to the offense.