budget reconciliation Archive

US Cross-border Tax Changes | OECD Global Minimum Tax Rules
December 20, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As 2021 comes to a close, countries are moving toward harmonizing tax rules for multinationals, but stalled talks on the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) in the United States means new uncertainties for a global agreement and for taxpayers. Despite the 2017 U.S. tax reform serving as inspiration for current discussions of a

Permanent Build Back Better Act Likely Requires Middle Class Tax Hikes
December 15, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has given us a sobering look into our fiscal future under the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), estimating that if all the bill’s policies were made permanent, $3 trillion would be added to the national debt over the next 10 years. This is on top of more than

Build Back Better Plan Inflation
December 13, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As the Senate weighs changes to the spending and tax portions of the Build Back Better Act, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Tax Foundation find the bill would increase the cumulative budget deficit over the next 10 years—contrary to claims the legislation is “fully paid for.” The deficit impact may contribute to

Biden Interest Limitation: Interest Limitation Pile-On
December 10, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares How should tax policy treat interest expenses? Historically, corporate income tax systems in the U.S. and around the world have allowed businesses to deduct their interest paid. As Congress contemplates adding a new worldwide interest limitation rule as part of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), it is useful to consider the potential

Who Gets Hit by the Book Minimum Tax?
November 18, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The current version of the reconciliation bill—the Build Back Better Act—attempts to walk a fine (politically imposed) line: raising hundreds of billions of dollars from higher corporate taxes without raising the corporate tax rate. The centerpiece of this effort is the book minimum tax, a new alternative minimum tax applied to the financial

Build Back Better Inflation Impact: Biden Tax Plan
November 17, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that prices had risen 6.2 percent in the year up to October 2021, the fastest rate since 1990. The persistently high inflation in recent months has made some lawmakers question the need for additional deficit spending. In the short term, the Build Back Better

Build Back Better Book Minimum Tax
November 17, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Build Back Better Act (BBBA) would raise taxes to pay for social spending programs. But the design of some of the tax increases may end up hurting private pensions, among other problems. By relying on measures of income reported on company financial statements, i.e., book income, the proposed corporate alternative minimum tax

How Do Build Back Better Taxes Affect 5G Competition?
November 15, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares One unintended consequence of the tax proposals in the Build Back Better Act is a higher potential burden on wireless spectrum investments. Proposals like levying a minimum tax on book income would retroactively tax past spectrum purchases and raise the tax burden on future spectrum purchases. In turn, it could distort the prices companies

Comparing Different Versions of the House Build Back Better Act
November 10, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda has changed several times in the past few months. In September, the House Ways and Means Committee released a draft that included $3.5 trillion in spending and tax credits, paired with roughly $2.1 trillion in tax increases (resulting in a net tax increase of about $1 trillion).

It Would Be a Mistake to Resurrect Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax
November 3, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The latest version of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better reconciliation package reintroduces a policy that has been tried before—and abandoned: a corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT). It would be a mistake to revive this complex and poorly designed policy. Instead, lawmakers should consider directly reducing corporate tax expenditures. The corporate alternative minimum tax was