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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In a new analysis, the Tax Policy Center estimates that the major tax changes in the latest version of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan would cut taxes on average for nearly  all income groups in 2022. The exception: Those in the top 1 percent, who will make about $885,000 or more. They’d

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares See 2021 Tax Brackets On a yearly basis the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) adjusts more than 60 tax provisions for inflation to prevent what is called “bracket creep.” Bracket creep occurs when people are pushed into higher income tax brackets or have reduced value from credits and deductions due to inflation, instead of any

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Indonesia, the world’s second-largest cigarette market, has a uniquely complex system when it comes to taxing its tobacco consumption, which is almost exclusively cigarettes (98 percent). The country’s cigarette taxes are divided into no less than 10 rate tiers based on product type, volume, and price. These tiers are meant to protect smaller

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Note: The following comments were submitted to the Maryland’s Comptroller’s office on November 8th, 2021 regarding the regulation of Maryland’s Digital Advertising Tax. The Maryland digital advertising tax, applied to gross revenue derived from digital advertising services, has a rate escalating from 2.5 percent to 10 percent of the advertising platform’s assessable base

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares I am sharing a working paper which I, Andres Knobel have written, for which I welcome feedback, please send to [email protected]. Here’s a summary below, and you can read the full paper here. Rethinking Limited Liability: Beneficial Ownership Transparency to Reform the Liability System Limited liability refers to the right to cap a

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On the heels of Halloween, leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies endorsed a global minimum tax of 15 percent on large multinational corporations. The minimum tax, signed in Rome and announced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is intended to curb profit shifting and limit tax rate competition between

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The second edition of the Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard is out today and shows that governments have made insufficient progress in addressing the world’s leading cause of preventable death, despite established evidence that the most effective tool—tobacco taxation—would reduce smoking and increase tax revenues. By using new data from the WHO Report on