Don't forget small businesses. We're booming under Trump tax cuts, too. We're green-lighting two start-ups, doubling research and development, hiring more people and giving larger raises and bonuses.

Gary Rabine | Opinion contributor

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Big businesses are receiving uncommonly excellent press lately.

For good reason. Dozens of major American employers are giving their employees significant pay raises or bonuses because of the new tax law that lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.This will help millions of hard working Americans pay their bills and enjoy their lives.

This week, the dental supplier giant Henry Schein announced it was giving $1,000 bonuses to about 4,000 employees due to tax savings. Last week, consumer foods manufacturer JM Smucker Co. said it was doing the same for its nearly 5,000 employees. In recent weeks, some of the country's biggest private employers such as Walmart, Lowe’s, Disney, FedEx, Home Depot, Bank of America and AT&T have added their names to this growing list of companies sharing tax savings with their employees.

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But don’t forget about small businesses, which under the new law receive a 20% tax deduction and the ability to immediately expense their business investments. Our actions may not generate headlines, but they are also giving pay increases to their employees and expanding their businesses as a result of the new tax law.

Take my company, the Rabine Group, a group of nine small Illinois-based companies providing paving, roofing, property assessment technology, dump trucking and exterior facility maintenance and construction. Because of tax cuts, our companies are able to do additional things that will spark economic growth. These include raises and bonuses for our teammates, larger donations to nonprofits, more hiring and jobs, larger research and development (R&D) spending, and expansion.

We will be giving raises that are roughly 50% larger than the past eight years and also larger bonus incentives. Our donations to the nonprofit foundations we support will in many cases double in 2018, and we will be adding jobs across the board from entry-level to leadership.

The combination of small business and corporate tax cuts has created small business optimism like we haven’t seen in more than a decade. Small businesses like ours work for great companies like Exelon, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s. And when they are growing, we can count on more opportunity.

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We had two startup companies on hold for the last three to five years and these tax cuts incentivized us to start them on Jan. 1. We estimate each company will employ five to 15 employees within the first year.

Meanwhile, our existing companies will double their R&D investment and add 20 to 30 employees this year. These are people who would not have been hired under the previous presidential administration or most likely the alternative administration in the last election.

We think this R&D and these new companies will create customer value and differentiation that will allow our American companies to grow globally for the first time in our 36-year history.

It’s not just me. Through my affiliation with national business leadership organizations and large nonprofits, I’ve learned that many American small businesses, including Joseph's Lite Cookies and Staub Manufacturing, across America are also pumping their tax cuts back into their employees, investing more in R&D, or increasing their support for causes they believe in.

Yet, because small businesses often lack the accounting departments to help parse the changes to the tax code, some may be a little delayed in recognizing and deploying the associated savings. But as more small business owners learn about their welcome tax cut surprise in the coming months, expect to hear many more similar stories.

Just don’t expect them to make the front page.

Gary Rabine is the CEO and Founder of the Rabine Group.