corporate tax rate

Corporate Taxes: Are They Fair? Who Really Pays Them, And When?

When it comes to corporate taxes, what’s “fair?” Do taxpayers have a sense of what major corporations pay in taxes? And when corporations pay income taxes, do we understand who ultimately bears that tax burden?

March 4, 2020Renu Zaretsky

Business Taxes: TaxVox

Did TCJA’s Corporate Rate Cuts Work As Promised? No Signs Yet.

Last week , I debated American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Aparna Mathur on the question of whether the corporate income tax rate cuts from the...

February 19, 2020Steven M. Rosenthal

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Has Uncertainty Undercut the TCJA’s Promised Investment Benefits?

While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act significantly cuts taxes for US corporations, it may have created so much uncertainty that the promised benefits of...

May 23, 2018Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The Long Strange Journey of Donald Trump and Partnership Taxes

In my many years of writing about tax policy, I have never seen anything quite like the ongoing affair of Donald Trump and business taxes...

September 20, 2016Howard Gleckman

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Got Growth? Dynamic Scoring, Deductions and Governors

The GOP says it wants a revolution, but who’s going to change the world? Long touted as a way to prove that tax cuts can pay for themselves by the economic growth they generate, “dynamic scoring” of federal legislation is no simple task. Today’s TPC-Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

January 26, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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Credits, Shelters, Gaps, Collections and Rates

On the Hill next week: The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight holds a hearing on June 10 to review the government’s ability to verify income and insurance information when it comes to the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits and subsidies. About two million people who purchased health care

June 6, 2014Renu Zaretsky

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Tax Relief, Hikes, and Incentives

DC residents will likely see tax cuts—the largest in 15 years. The DC Council voted yesterday to support $165 million in tax cuts , a plan based in part on recommendations made by the DC Tax Revision Commission . Tax burdens for low- and middle-income residents would decrease in January. For four

May 29, 2014Renu Zaretsky