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Corporate Tax Reform

Apple CEO: 'We Pay All The Taxes We Owe'

AP | MARCY GORDON and PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.22.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON — The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim ...

Winning Customers Around the World Begins at Home With Tax Reform

Claire Buchan Parker | Posted 05.03.2013 | Business
Claire Buchan Parker

It's been more than a half-century since the U.S. undertook a bottom-up review of our international tax laws. In fact, they haven't been updated since 1963, when the U.S. accounted for 50 percent of the global economy and did not have any serious competition from other nations.

Facebook Paid A NEGATIVE 40.4 Percent Tax Rate In 2012, Group Claims

Posted 04.12.2013 | Business

Here’s something to ā€œLike" if you're Facebook: getting a tax rebate despite pulling in billions in profits. The social media giant paid a nega...

A Half Century Never Looked So Old

Claire Buchan Parker | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Claire Buchan Parker

It has been more than 50 years since the United States updated its international tax system. In that half century, the world has changed dramatically. Is it any wonder then, why there is a growing frustration that the system doesn't work?

CEOs Push To Limit Taxes On Record-Breaking Offshore Profits

Posted 03.19.2013 | Business

At a time when major U.S. corporations have a record amount of cash stashed abroad, a group of influential CEOs want to make it even easier for compan...

Obama Huddles With GOP Senators On Big Priority

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican senators on Thursday discussed working on a stand-alone corpo...

Deception in the Corporate Tax Reform Debate

David Callahan | Posted 04.28.2013 | Business
David Callahan

The RATE Coalition, a 501(c)4 organization dedicated to corporate tax reform, makes such patently simplistic arguments in this area that it's hard to fathom how two smart people like Elaine Kamarck and James Pinkerton could lend their reputations to the enterprise.

Artist-Hacker's Project 'Empowers Everyone To Evade Taxes'

ARTINFO | Posted 04.21.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

For his latest subversive intervention, the self-described "contemporary artist and pirate" Paolo Cirio wants to give you the offshore tax benefits en...

Ben Hallman

Made In America: How Corporate Lobbyists Manufactured A $100 Billion Tax Break

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 02.16.2013 | Business

Starbucks had already mastered the art of doing business on multiple continents as it grew from a niche coffee retailer in Seattle into a global brand...

Is There a Real Consensus on Tax Reform?

Joseph J. Thorndike | Posted 01.19.2013 | Politics
Joseph J. Thorndike

For liberals, high rates promise to ameliorate inequality. Economists may raise doubts about the efficacy of higher rates in achieving that goal. But it seems fair to say -- as liberals often do -- that lowering rates isn't likely to help.

Joe Biden Makes Overblown Claim

Posted 09.07.2012 | Business

Joe Biden made a lot of claims about Mitt Romney and the Republican presidential nominee's policies during his fiery speech at the Democratic National...

Untying the Knot

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 06.09.2012 | Business
Sen. Fritz Hollings

Budget rhetoric in Washington is askew. Instead of discussing taxes we ought to be discussing the merit of programs and how to pay for them. But programs are never debated.

Americans Say Others Not Paying Fair Share Of Taxes

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.05.2012 | Business

It's not that Americans just don't like paying taxes. They also really don't approve of the U.S. system as a whole, according to a recent survey. ...

Senator On Corporate Tax Rate: 'This Isn't An April Fool's Day Joke'

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012 | Business

* Japan's corporate tax rate dropping to 38.01 pct on Sunday * Combined U.S. 39.2 pct rate will be developed world's highest ...

A Grown-Up Conversation About the Corporate Tax

Martin Sullivan | Posted 05.29.2012 | Politics
Martin Sullivan

Higher corporate taxes do not reduce corporate capital formation. They shift it abroad. The result is domestic job losses and lower domestic wages.

Main Street or Wall Street? Why Not Both?

Kristie Arslan | Posted 05.08.2012 | Small Business
Kristie Arslan

If we're going to talk about tax reform, we need to be talking about reform across the board, not just for those who seem to command the most attention and action from Congress and the White House.

Zach Carter

CEOs Embrace Tax Hike Plans Rejected By Paul Ryan

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.08.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A powerful coalition of corporate executives on Wednesday praised a deficit reduction plan that has long been maligned by GOP leaders fo...

Corporate Tax Rate Hits Ten-Year Low

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012 | Business

Nobody likes tax time. But for many companies, that annual burden is getting a lot lighter. Corporations are enjoying not only record profits, but ...

GE Breaks Law, Avoids Taxes. Gets Billions From Gov't, Avoids Taxes. Gets White House Post -- Ah, You Know The Rest.

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.28.2012 | Politics
Richard (RJ) Eskow

GE has probably avoided paying its fair share of taxes in a "legal" way -- if the word "legal" can be used to describe a system where corporations pay for the privilege of influencing politicians to bend the law in their favor.

Warren Buffett: High Corporate Taxes Are An American 'Myth'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.27.2012 | Business

Corporations, like the rich, aren't paying their fair share in taxes, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday. Even while enjoying...

The President's Corporate Tax Reform Message: Say What?

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.24.2012 | Politics
Robert L. Borosage

We have a debate between the right -- Republicans like Mitt Romney who would cut corporate taxes and ask them to pay less -- and a business-friendly, centrist president who won't call on corporations to pay more. "Fair share?" -- not so much.

Corporations Don't Need a Tax Cut, So Why Is Obama Proposing One?

Robert Reich | Posted 04.23.2012 | Politics
Robert Reich

Why isn't the White House just proposing to close the loopholes without reducing overall corporate tax rates? That would generate more tax revenue that could be used for, say, public schools.

Corporate Tax Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.23.2012 | Business
Jared Bernstein

Pretty much every discussion of tax reform these days ends with an agreement that we need to broaden the base and lower the rates. Well, the White House today will release the broad outlines of a plan to do just that on the corporate side of the federal tax code.

Corporate Tax Reform Plan To Be Rolled Out By Treasury Department Wednesday

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012 | Business

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department will roll out President Barack Obama's corporate tax reform plan on Wednesday, administr...

Obama's Proposed Minimum Tax on Foreign Earnings

Robert Pozen | Posted 04.21.2012 | Politics
Robert Pozen

If properly designed, the president's minimum tax could substantially improve the current system of taxing foreign profits of U.S. multinational corporations -- by both raising revenues and encouraging domestic investments.