Corporate Tax Reform

Untying the Knot

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: International Trade, Vat, National Debt, Budget, China Tax, Value Added Tax, Budget Deficit, Corporate Tax Reform, Tax Reform, Business News

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.

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Americans Say Others Not Paying Fair Share Of Taxes

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Business News, Google, Barack Obama Taxes, Survey, Corporate Tax Reform, Tax Reform, Facebook, Corporate Tax Rate, Business News

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. ...

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

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Video, U.S. Corporate Tax Rate, U.S. Corporate Taxes, Corporate Tax Rate, Reuters, Business News, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Business News

* 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 ...

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A Grown-Up Conversation About the Corporate Tax

Martin Sullivan | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Vat, Value Added Tax, Politics News

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

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Main Street or Wall Street? Why Not Both?

Kristie Arslan | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Main Street, Small Business, Kristie Arslan, Corporate Tax Reform, Wall Street, Self-Employed, Nase, Small Business America, Small Business News

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.

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CEOs Embrace Tax Hike Plans Rejected By Paul Ryan

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.08.2012

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

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Corporate Tax Rate Hits Ten-Year Low

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Tax Cuts, Video, U.S. Corporate Tax Rate, U.S. Corporate Taxes, Corporate Tax Rate, Barack Obama Taxes, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Taxes, Obama Corporate Taxes, Business News

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

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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

Read More: Obama, Ge, Corporate Tax Reform, Citizens for Tax Justice, Jeffrey Immelt, Politics News

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.

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

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.27.2012

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

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

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Obama, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Tax Reform, Corporate Tax, Taxes, Federal Budget Deficit, Barack Obama, Corporate America, Corporations, Corporate Tax Rate, President Obama, Financial Crisis, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Politics News

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.

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

Robert Reich | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Corporate Tax Reform, Obama Tax Reform, Tax Reform, White House Corporate Tax Reform, Obama Corporate Taxes, Corporate Tax, Politics News

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.

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Corporate Tax Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: 28 Percent Tax, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Tax Rates, Tax Reform Obama, White House Tax Reform, Obama Tax Reform, Obama Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Tax Rate, Business News

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.

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

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

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

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Obama's Proposed Minimum Tax on Foreign Earnings

Robert Pozen | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Repatriation, Foreign Source Income, Corporate Tax Reform, Multinational Corporations, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Taxes, Politics News

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.

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Tim Geithner: We Need To Make Sure Corporations 'Pay Their Fair Share'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.14.2012

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If you're feeling upset while filing your taxes this year, knowing that super-rich Americans like Mitt Romney could be paying a lower tax rate, Treasu...

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Corporate Taxes As Percentage Of Profits Now Lowest In Decades

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.03.2012

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As a percentage of ever-growing profits, corporations are paying less in taxes than they have in decades. Thanks in part to federal tax breaks, cor...

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Eureka!

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Value Added Taxes, Vat, Taxes, Corporate Globalization, Value Added Tax, Globalization, Corporate Tax Reform, Tax Reform, Business News

If the president would campaign on competing in globalization he not only could save his reelection, he could save the country.

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OOPS: Romney Wrongly Claims Obama Raised Corporate Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Corporate Tax Cuts, Video, 2012 Election, Corporate Tax Rate, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Business News, Elections 2012, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Obama Corporate Taxes, Barack Obama, Business News

The only problem with Mitt Romney's fact check of President Barack Obama after his State of the Union address was that the Republican presidential can...

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David Cay Johnston: A Corporate Tax Code For A Different Century

Reuters | Posted 03.15.2012

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(Repeating for wider distribution.) NEW YORK, Jan 13 (David Cay Johnston, Reuters) - Big business is lobbying for a major cut in the corpora...

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Loopholes, Corporate Tax Dodging Costing Developing Countries Billions: Report

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.05.2011

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It's no secret that many multinationals have become particularly adept at exploiting tax loopholes. Nor is it a surprising that the U.S. federal defic...

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Despite Profits, Surveyed Corporations Paid Far Less Than Legally-Imposed Tax Rate

Posted 08.01.2011

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WASHINGTON (Kevin Drawbaugh) - Twelve big U.S. companies paid far less than the statutory corporate tax rate from 2008 to 2010, despite making sub...

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Tax Hikes Republicans Can Live With

David Callahan | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Taxes, Tom Coburn, Mitch McConnell, Tax Pledge, Tax Expenditures, Corporate Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, Tax Breaks, Tax Reform, Tax Increases, Gang of Six, Politics News

A seemingly immutable law of today's politics is that Republicans in Congress have shifted so far right that they oppose all revenue increases -- no matter how urgent America's fiscal needs may be. But perhaps this is no longer the case.

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GE Versus The NYT: Who Pays More Taxes?

Tax.com | David Cay Johnston | Posted 06.11.2011

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Just as the individual income tax falls more heavily on the affluent than the super-rich, so too does the corporate income tax. The giants of American...

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Obama Rejects Tax Increase On Big Business

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 06.06.2011

WASHINGTON -- As Congress grinds closer to shutting down the federal government and the White House floats proposals to cut social services for workin...

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Geithner: 'Revenue Neutral' Corporate Tax Reform In The Works

Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Revenue Neutral, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, Wall Street, President Barack Obama, U.S. Treasury, Obama Administration, Timothy Geithner, Corporate Tax Reform, Marginal Corporate Rate, Tax Code, Business News

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is working on a comprehensive proposal for corporate tax reform, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sa...

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