What is the Fair Tax? Q.What is the Fair Tax? A.The Fair Tax Act of 2023 (HR 25) would replace the federal individual income tax, corporate income tax, payroll taxes, and the estate and gift tax with a national retail sales tax. Read more about What is the Fair Tax?
How does the corporate income tax work? Q.How does the corporate income tax work? A.The United States imposes a tax on the profits of US resident corporations at a rate of 21 percent (reduced from 35 percent by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act). The corporate income tax raised $424.7 billion in fiscal year 2022, accounting for 8.7 percent of total federal receipts and 1.7 percent of GDP. Read more about How does the corporate income tax work?
How do US corporate income tax rates and revenues compare with other countries’? Q.How do US corporate income tax rates and revenues compare with other countries’? A.The US corporate income tax rate is now lower than the top rate in all other leading economies except for the United Kingdom. Corporate income tax revenues in the United States as a share of gross domestic product have been lower than the average in other leading economies, even before the 2017 reduction in the US corporate tax rate. Read more about How do US corporate income tax rates and revenues compare with other countries’?