Monthly Archive:: May 2021

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Under President Biden’s tax plan, the United States would tax corporate income at the highest top rate in the industrialized world, averaging 65.1 percent. First, the federal corporate tax rate would rise to 28 percent, which together with an average of state corporate tax rates would result in a 32.4 percent combined top

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As President Biden’s tax plans are considered in Congress, the future of the $10,000 cap for state and local tax deductions (SALT) is becoming an important part of the tax debate. Certain members of the House and Senate want the SALT deduction cap removed, which would benefit primarily higher earners—and result in a

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares May 3, 2021 Ulrik Boesen Tom VanAntwerp Ulrik Boesen, Tom VanAntwerp   Cigarette excise taxes have been a source of state revenue for decades, and states have long relied on this revenue. Using data from Orzechowski and Walker’s annual compendium The Tax Burden on Tobacco, this web tool shows how cigarette tax revenues have changed between 1955

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares I—among many others—have called for more money for the Internal Revenue Service to enable it to collect even more money owed to the US Treasury. And I still was stunned by the enormity of President Biden’s proposal to boost the IRS’s budget by $80 billion over the next decade: an increase of more

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Guest blogger Bob Probasco returns today with perhaps his final update on the Paresky case. Christine Nothing about the decision was really surprising.  The contrary decision in E.W. Scripps Co. v. United States, 420 F.3d 589 (6th Cir. 2005) was always a strained interpretation of the jurisdictional statutes, and the trend has been

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As 17th century French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert once said, “Taxation is the art of plucking the goose as to obtain the maximum number of feathers, with the smallest possible amount of hissing.” In Tax Foundation’s new book, Options for Reforming America’s Tax Code 2.0, we modeled 70 possible reforms to the U.S.

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