Tax Policy Center

pass-through businesses

Business Taxes: TaxVox
For the past ten years, I’ve been a sole proprietor who pays taxes using personal income tax returns. I’d never considered establishing an LLC (limited liability company). Should I?
December 6, 2023Renu Zaretsky
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
This week, Colorado became the 14 th state to either require or allow some pass-through businesses such as partnerships to pay state income taxes at...
June 24, 2021Kim S. Rueben
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
Politicians love to make claims about tax policy. This tax cut will create jobs! That one forced the school district to fire teachers! But too...
November 12, 2019Richard C. Auxier
: TaxVox
House Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) reportedly is about to make a formal request for 10 years of President Trump’s tax returns...
March 7, 2019Steven M. Rosenthal
: TaxVox
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...
January 24, 2019Steven M. Rosenthal
: TaxVox
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the biggest tax overhaul in the United States in...
December 19, 2018William G. Gale
Business Taxes: TaxVox
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s (TCJA) special 20 percent individual income tax deduction for pass-through businesses such as partnerships and sole proprietorships was misguided—and...
August 15, 2018Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
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...
August 14, 2018Steven M. Rosenthal
Business Taxes: TaxVox
Corporations, owners of partnerships and other pass-through businesses, and millions of ordinary individual taxpayers are scrambling to understand how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
April 5, 2018Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
As states continue to search for ways to protect their residents from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s (TCJA) limits on the federal deductibility of...
February 27, 2018Howard Gleckman