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Biden's Global Minimum Tax on Companies Signs Up Nations

Corporations would no longer be able to avoid paying through subsidiaries in other countries

(Newser) - Some 130 countries have backed a global minimum tax as part of a worldwide effort to keep multinational firms from dodging taxes by shifting their profits to countries with low rates. The agreement announced Thursday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development also provides for taxing the largest global...

Biden Open to Compromise on Corporate Tax Hike

But inaction on infrastructure is not an option, he says

(Newser) - President Biden said Wednesday that he is open to compromise with Republicans on how to pay for his massive $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan . He's also going to have to be open to compromise with Democrats: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has said he will support raising the corporate...

Yellen Wants Minimum Global Corporate Tax

Treasury secretary criticizes nation-by-nation cuts

(Newser) - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday urged the adoption of a minimum global corporate income tax, an effort to offset any disadvantages that might arise from the Biden administration's proposed increase in the US corporate tax rate. Citing a "30-year race to the bottom" in which countries have...

House GOP Won't Cut Taxes for Wealthiest Earners

But corporate tax rate will be slashed from 39% to 20%

(Newser) - Furiously working to finish a tax bill, House Republicans have decided to keep the income tax rate for the wealthiest earners in the face of Democratic criticism that the overhaul pushed by President Trump would benefit the rich. The GOP blew past its self-imposed deadline for public release, with the...

This Company Has a -5% Corporate Tax Rate

GE tops WalletHub's list of companies with lowest corporate tax rates; Caterpillar has the highest

(Newser) - To best understand how President Trump's plan to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% would affect companies, it's necessary to determine a company's effective tax rate. WalletHub is on the case. The outlet reviewed annual reports for the top 100 companies on the S&...

Trump Pushes Huge Tax Cut, but There's One Big Problem
Trump Pushes Huge Tax Cut,
but There's One Big Problem
the rundown
Apr 25, 2017 10:35 AM CDT

Trump Pushes Huge Tax Cut, but There's One Big Problem

GOP lawmakers worried about the deficit may not play along

(Newser) - President Trump promises to outline his tax proposals on Wednesday, and the big headline in advance is that he wants to cut the corporate tax rate dramatically from 35% to 15% even if that raises the national debt. Here's a look at the ramifications, along with other aspects of...

Icahn Drops $150M to Fight Corporate Tax Dodgers

He's the latest billionaire to get in the Super PAC game

(Newser) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Wednesday he is creating a $150 million super PAC focused on revising corporate tax law. Icahn will use his super PAC to press Congress to pass legislation that stops US companies from moving their profits overseas to take advantage of lower tax rates — a...

CEO Salary Bigger Than Tax Bill at 7 Top Companies

Some of top 30 firms got more from feds than they paid

(Newser) - Two Washington think tanks have some jarring figures in a report outlining the case for corporate tax reform: Seven of the top 30 US firms pay more to their CEOs than they pay in federal income tax, according to the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government...

Corporate Income Tax Is a Game No One Wins
Corporate Income Tax Is a
Game No One Wins
OPINION
Jul 17, 2014 1:44 PM CDT

Corporate Income Tax Is a Game No One Wins

Megan McArdle thinks we should get rid of it entirely

(Newser) - This week, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew asked Congress to make it harder for US corporations to evade taxes by being "acquired" by a foreign corporation in a low-tax country. It's the latest in the long back-and-forth game of corporate taxation, writes Megan McArdle at Bloomberg . For every move...

Obama to GOP: Let's Cut Corporate Taxes
 Obama to GOP: Let's 
 Cut Corporate Taxes 
NEW 'GRAND BARGAIN'?
Jul 30, 2013 7:58 AM CDT

Obama to GOP: Let's Cut Corporate Taxes

... but only if you agree to job creation measures

(Newser) - President Obama has a new "grand bargain" for Republicans, though it's a little less grand this time around. In a speech today, Obama will offer to overhaul the corporate tax code, reducing the rate and reaping a onetime windfall in the process, the Wall Street Journal reports. In...

Let's Become a Corporate Tax Haven

 Let's Become 
 a Corporate 
 Tax Haven 
OPINION
Mar 27, 2013 1:30 PM CDT

Let's Become a Corporate Tax Haven

Ramesh Ponnuru has an idea for radically overhauling the tax code.

(Newser) - What if, instead of countries hiding their money overseas, they were investing it in the US? Ramesh Ponnuru at Bloomberg thinks that not only is it possible, it's the best solution to America's corporate tax quandary. America's 35% corporate tax rate is the highest in the developed...

US Companies Stashing $1.9 Trillion Overseas

'Broken' tax code causes offshore hoarding to soar $183B last year

(Newser) - The top 83 US-based companies now hold a massive $1.45 trillion offshore, parked in low-tax countries, after increasing those holdings by 14.4%—or $183 billion—just in the last year, reports Bloomberg . The leader in offshore profit parking is GE, with $108 billion, up $6 billion from last...

Louisiana Considers Ditching Its Income Tax

Bobby Jindal calls proposed move revenue-neutral

(Newser) - Bobby Jindal wants to do away with income and corporate taxes in his state—and raise Louisiana's 4% sales tax to make up the difference, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. "It's time to change that so people can keep more of their own money and foster an...

26 Big Firms Paid More to CEOs Than to US in Taxes
26 Big Firms Paid More to CEOs Than to US in Taxes
study says
Aug 16, 2012 7:54 AM CDT

26 Big Firms Paid More to CEOs Than to US in Taxes

New study blasts corporate tax code

(Newser) - A new study that might set your blood boiling finds that 26 large US companies, each of which generated an average of more than $1 billion in net income last year, paid more to their CEOs than they paid to the federal government in taxes last year. The CEOs received...

The Secrets Behind Apple's Super-Low Tax Rate

Tech giant highlights government's tax problems in information age

(Newser) - Apple is one of the most profitable companies in the world—and also one of the most aggressive and creative at avoiding taxes, reports the New York Times , which outlines a number of the company's tax-avoidance strategies. Among them:
  • Despite its well-known Cupertino, California, headquarters, Apple partly avoids the
...

GOP Rolls Out Budget With Huge Tax Cuts

There would be just two brackets, with the top at 25%

(Newser) - House Republicans rolled out a new Paul Ryan-penned budget proposal today that calls for a drastic tax-code overhaul, major changes to Medicare and Medicaid, and deep cuts in domestic spending, all while softening a set of automatic defense spending cuts set to hit in January. The budget would scrap our...

Obama to Bare Plan Cutting Corporate Taxes to 28%

Tax code overhaul to be unveiled today

(Newser) - President Obama will unveil details of his plan for a massive overhaul of the corporate tax code today, including cutting the top rate from 35% down to 28%, an administration official tells the New York Times . Manufacturers will see their effective maximum rate cut to 25%, and a minimum tax...

Obama Pushes Sweeping Corporate Tax Reform

Top rate to be cut as playing field leveled, Geithner says

(Newser) - President Obama is planning the biggest overhaul of the corporate tax code since Ronald Reagan's in 1986. The administration will soon unveil a blueprint for making the code more fair and lowering the top rate of 35%, which is among the highest in the world, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...

Number of Tax-Free Firms Explodes

Nearly 69% paid no corporate income tax in 2008

(Newser) - Just when you thought we could use more tax revenue comes word that a skyrocketing number of American companies are paying no taxes. That's zip, zero, zilch in federal income tax, and the group includes some publicly traded companies. The percentage of companies organized as tax-free operations has zoomed...

30 Top Corporations Paid US No Taxes, Despite Profit

Few companies actually pay 35% rate

(Newser) - America may have a lofty 35% corporate tax rate—but who actually pays that? A new study from a pair of left-leaning think tanks examined 280 Fortune 500 companies from 2008-2010, and found that their average effective rate was 18.5%, with a quarter paying less than 10% and 30...

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