Steven M Rosenthal, senior fellow, testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, Oversight Subcommittee at a hearing on “Tax Fairness.” In his testimony, he examines President’s Trump’s reported taxes as a case study. Mr. Rosenthal assesses tax fairness through...
Steven M. Rosenthal, Senior Fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, testified before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight during a hearing entitled “Legislative Proposals and Tax Law Related to Presidential and Vice-Presidential Tax Returns.” In his testimony, Rosenthal...
This year, Congress will consider what may be the biggest tax bill in decades. This is one of a series of briefs the Tax Policy Center has prepared to help people follow the debate. Each focuses on a key tax policy issue that Congress and the Trump administration may address. This brief walks...
In this article, Rosenthal argues that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump aggressively stretched the law to avoid hundreds of millions of dollars of discharge of indebtedness income.
This article was originally published by TaxNotes.
This testimony describes how taxes on corporate earnings have dropped because of corporate moves to avoid taxes and because of shareholder shifts from taxable to nontaxable accounts. Secondly, the testimony describes how a lower estimate of the taxable share of US stock complicates attempts to...
In this report, Rosenthal and Austin demonstrate that the share of U.S. stocks held by taxable accounts has declined sharply over the last 50 years, and they urge lawmakers to carefully consider this shareholder base erosion when determining how best to tax corporate earnings.
We explore issues related to a financial transaction tax (FTT) in the United States. We trace the history and current practice of the tax in the United States and other countries, review evidence of its impact on financial markets, and explore the key design issues any such tax must address. We...
The massive financial market failures that led to the Great Recession have prompted renewed calls for a financial transaction tax (FTT) to discourage excessive risk taking and recoup the costs of the crisis. A well-designed FTT could raise up to about 0.4 percent of GDP ($75 billion in 2017) in...
In a recent report co-authored with University of Chicago Professor Daniel Hemel, I described how our retirement tax system favors the rich disproportionately. But it’s...
Mega-IRAs are hot this summer, following a June 2021 report by the nonprofit news service ProPublica that revealed—based on leaked IRS files—that a handful of...
In his American Families Plan, President Biden unveiled a tax compliance initiative aimed at closing the gap between taxes that are owed and what are...
Last week, a group of prominent academic and government economists published a study that estimated the top 1 percent of Americans hide more than 20...
Our new analysis shows that foreign investors owned about 40 percent of US corporate equity in 2019, up substantially over the last few decades. Retirement...
Yesterday, I testified before the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight on “tax fairness,” and the hearing spotlighted the reporting of new details on President...
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the IRS are right: Because the hundreds of billions of dollars the businesses are getting through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,...
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act grants massive tax relief for business losses, but most of the benefits will be reaped by...
Last week , I debated American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Aparna Mathur on the question of whether the corporate income tax rate cuts from the...
In the face of a looming shutdown of the federal government last week, Congress passed, and the president signed, legislation providing funding through September 30,...
Yesterday, the Treasury Department announced it would keep, but limit, an important tool added by the Obama Administration to stem tax-driven corporate inversions: the regulations...
The House Ways and Means Committee today filed suit in federal court demanding President Trump’s 2013-2019 tax returns. The Committee says it is seeking Trump’s...
I testified before the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight yesterday on whether presidents, vice presidents, and candidates for these offices should disclose their tax...
Last Friday, Treasury finalized its regulations for the special 20-percent tax deduction for income from pass-through businesses, which was added by the 2017 Tax Cuts...
Incoming House Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) indicated that he will request President Trump’s tax returns soon after Democrats formally take control...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) contains a special 20-percent individual income tax deduction for owners of pass-through businesses that was always going to...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) created a new tax-advantaged Opportunity Zone program to encourage investments in economically-distressed communities that are nominated by governors...
This week, the Treasury Department finalized the last set of Obama-era regulations intended to curb tax-motivated corporate inversions. An inversion arises when a U.S. corporation...
