Tax Proposals Archive
Pillar Two: Global Minimum Tax Model Rules
March 16, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Everyone loves accounting, right? You have debits and credits that change the balance of assets, liabilities, and equity on the balance sheet and report cash flows and accruals on the income statement. The rules are complex. To make matters worse, the accounting rules for tax are different than for financial accounting used to
Formulary Apportionment and the OECD Tax Deal
February 28, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares One of the greatest challenges of lawmaking is recognizing when a beautiful theory must succumb to an ugly fact. The purity of conceptual policymaking must take the real world into account and acknowledge that things that work well “in theory” sometimes fail spectacularly to meet expectations “in practice.” It would be wonderful if
10 Tax Reforms for Economic Growth and Opportunity
February 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings The waning pandemic and robust economic recovery have come with many benefits—plentiful jobs and fast-growing (nominal) incomes—but also serious challenges such as high and rising inflation. Rather than pushing for more fiscal stimulus or leaving it to the Federal Reserve to handle inflation through higher interest rates, policymakers should focus on
Sources of US Tax Revenue by Tax Type, 2022
February 14, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Policy and economic differences among OECD countries have created variances in how they raise tax revenue, with the United States deviating substantially from the OECD average on some sources of revenue. Different taxes create different economic impacts, so policymakers should always consider how tax revenue is raised and not just how much is
US Global Minimum Tax Build Back Better Considerations
January 28, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Build Back Better legislative package includes both tax hikes and tax cuts, which contain two contrasting tax policy narratives. Tax hikes include corporate tax increases on foreign income and a new 15 percent domestic minimum tax, and green energy tax incentives provide a tax cut. Policymakers also sought to protect some pre-existing tax
Fiscal Policy Inflation Tax Policy Options
January 24, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Consumer prices rose by 7 percent in 2021, the highest annual rate of inflation since 1982. Where did this inflation come from and what might its impacts be? Tax and fiscal policy offer important clues. Initially thought to be “transitory” and largely the result of pandemic-related supply-chain issues, many economists at the Federal
Wealth Taxes in the OECD and Lessons for the U.S.
January 18, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Recent discussions of a proposed wealth tax for the United States have included little information about trends in wealth taxation among other developed nations. However, those trends and the current state of wealth taxes in OECD countries can provide context for U.S. proposals. The OECD maintains detailed tax revenue statistics for its 38
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
What Do Global Minimum Tax Rules Mean for Corporate Tax Policies?
December 20, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released model rules for the global minimum tax (also known as Pillar 2). These rules are designed to apply to multinational companies with more than €750 million in total global revenues and place a minimum effective tax rate of 15 percent on those company’s
Bipartisan Tax Policy: Tax Policy’s Bipartisan Roots
December 6, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The following blog post was adapted from a speech given by Mr. Graetz at the Tax Foundation’s 2021 “Tax Prom,” where Mr. Graetz was awarded the Distinguished Service Award. I always begin my classes in Federal Income Taxation by reminding my students that the tax law is the primary link between people and
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