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Business Taxes

President Trump As Role Model: Avoiding Taxes For Sport

May 8, 2019 –
Do you consider not paying taxes “sport?” The President of the United States says he does. And that raises serious concerns about the stability of our volumtary tax system.
Business Taxes

The Post-TCJA’s Race To the Bottom

April 5, 2018 –
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

Can Treasury Rewrite the New Tax Bill?

February 26, 2018 –
Last year, Congress proved it can act quickly—enacting the massive Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) just six weeks after the first version was introduced...
Business Taxes

Only About One-Quarter of Corporate Stock is owned by Taxable Shareholders.

May 16, 2016 –
Only about one-quarter of U.S. corporate stock is held in taxable accounts, far less than most researchers and policymakers thought.
Business Taxes

This Is the Easiest Way the U.S. Can Stop Corporate Tax Dodgers

April 12, 2016 –
Collect a corporate exit tax. Last week, the New York-based drugmaker Pfizer scuttled its proposed $150 billion merger with Irish-based competitor...
Business Taxes

Treasury’s New Regulations are an Important Shift in U.S. Tax Policy

April 12, 2016 –
Treasury’s new regulations limit the ability of foreign-based multinationals to reduce taxable profits on U.S.-source income. This is a major...
Business Taxes

Treasury tackles earnings stripping

April 5, 2016 –
Yesterday, Treasury finally announced its promised earnings stripping rules-- and they go well beyond just trying to curb tax-motivated corporate...
Federal Budget and Economy

Tax Reform Is Possible, But It Won’t be Easy

November 4, 2015 –
At a Tax Policy Center conference on tax reform yesterday, Jason Furman, the chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, said that a major...
Individual Taxes

Can Behavioral Science Improve Tax Compliance?

July 9, 2012 –
In Sunday's New York Times, Richard Thaler laments that “as a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice...
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