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The 25-Percent Rate for Pass-Through Businesses Helps Rich Investors, Not “Small” Businesses

November 8, 2017 –
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady’s recently-introduced tax plan promises to cap the income tax rate for income generated by pass-through businesses at...
Business Taxes

A new look at how current law and proposed reforms tax entrepreneurs

January 5, 2017 –
Tax policy debates often focus on entrepreneurs, those risk-takers who build businesses from scratch. In an effort to better understand how innovators who create new...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Clinton Proposes Tax Simplification for Small Business

August 23, 2016 –
Hillary Clinton has proposed a package of measures , including some important tax changes, aimed at making life easier for small businesses. They aren’t especially...
Business Taxes

No, Value-Added Taxes are Not Bad for Small Business

April 27, 2016 –
Value-added taxes (VATs) have been attracting growing attention in the United States. GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has proposed a VAT as part of...
Business Taxes

Corporate Tax Reform and Small Business

April 17, 2015 –
While there is no chance that Congress will agree to broad-based tax reform before the next president takes office in 2017, lawmakers are making one...
Business Taxes

Tax Subsidies May Not Help Start-Ups as Much as Lawmakers Think

February 9, 2015 –
Many tax subsidies help new businesses, especially those financed with borrowed money and organized to avoid the corporate income tax . However,...
Individual Taxes

Making State and Local Taxes “Friendly” to Small Businesses

June 18, 2014 –
Small business owners are more concerned with the complexity of state and local tax laws than with the amount of tax they pay, according to a recent...