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Brief
Business Taxes

Navigating the New Pass-Through Provisions: A Technical Explanation

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 allows owners of certain pass-through businesses (such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, and S corporations) to take a new deduction. However, the structure of the deduction is complicated because its generosity depends on many factors, such as the nature...

January 31, 2018
William G. GaleAaron Krupkin
Journal Article
Business Taxes

What Workers and Companies Should Know About the Republican Tax Bills

The House and Senate just passed different versions of proposals to restructure the federal income tax. As of December 12, 2017, a House-Senate conference committee was reconciling the two bills.  The bills reduce the corporate tax rate to 20 percent, introduce a preference for income from pass-...

December 14, 2017
Eric Toder
Brief
Business Taxes

Territorial Taxation: Choosing Among Imperfect Options

Both territorial and worldwide systems for taxing income of multinational companies are difficult to implement because the concepts of income source and corporate residence on which the systems are based have become less economically meaningful. Recent legislation enacted by the House and Senate...

December 12, 2017
Eric Toder
Journal Article
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Slashing Corporate Taxes: Foreign Investors Are Surprise Winners

In this article, Rosenthal evaluates the benefit to foreign investors from lowering the corporate income tax rate.

This article was originally published by...

October 23, 2017
Steven M. Rosenthal
Brief
Business Taxes

How Should Tax Reform Treat Employee Stock and Options?

This brief documents how the US tax system treats the most common forms of equity compensation, including stock, restricted stock units, and stock options. In most cases, these forms of equity compensation are taxed just like cash wages, salaries, and bonuses. Employees pay ordinary income taxes...

October 4, 2017
Donald Marron
Research report
Business Taxes

How Do We Tax the Income of Entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneurs create successful enterprises that generate substantial value through the innovations they introduce. They typically must wait many years before their firms generate net operating profits. The tax system favors entrepreneurial activity by allowing deferral of tax on the accrual of...

October 4, 2017
Eric Toder
Research report
Federal Budget and Economy

A Methodology for Integrated Distributional Analysis of Taxes and Transfers

Distributional analyses play a prominent role in policy discussions. Both tax and transfer policy have important distributional consequences, but traditionally they have been examined separately. This report describes a new methodology for integrated distributional analysis that imports results...

September 29, 2017
Gordon B. MerminFrank SammartinoMatthew BuettgensMelissa M. FavreaultElaine Maag
Testimony
Business Taxes

Business Tax Reform

Donald Marron, Institute Fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, testified before the US Senate Committee on Finance as part of the hearing "Business Tax Reform." Marron presented seven main points about business tax reform based on the proposals that have been discussed by the Congress...

September 19, 2017
Donald Marron
Research report
Business Taxes

Neutral Tax Reform with 15 Percent Business Income Tax Rate

The Trump administration has announced the broad outlines of a tax reform plan that contains many provisions similar to those in the House GOP tax reform “blueprint” announced last year, but there are fundamental differences in the provisions affecting businesses and investors. While different,...

August 22, 2017
James R. Nunns
Brief
Business Taxes

Potential Linkages between a U.S. Carbon Tax and the Earned Income Tax Credit

This brief summarizes, individually and jointly, an excise tax on carbon and an expansion of EITC benefits to childless workers. We find that although in principle a carbon tax that lowers wages could affect EITC benefits and thus impact low-to-moderate income households, the likely magnitude of...

July 31, 2017
Aparna MathurAdele C. Morris

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