And the Winner Is... The GOP. Now What?
The GOP takes control of the Senate. It has secured a majority in the Senate but has far from working control in a chamber where 60 votes are needed to do almost anything. Utah’s Orrin Hatch will...
View ArticleExtender Drama: Some Movies Just Aren’t Worth Seeing
Coming soon to a theater near you: The House embraces a one-year “tax extender” package. It would restore retroactively for 2014tax breaks affecting all manner of taxpayers—from research-heavy...
View ArticleNo Congressional Approval of a Spending Deal Yet, But Plenty of Commotion
In the spending bill, inversion curbs could be curbed. The bill to fund the government through September 2015, scheduled for a House vote today and a Senate vote after that, waters down...
View ArticleThe Senate Keeps Working...
Still on deck in the Senate: It is expected this week to renew dozens of expired tax breaks, including tax cuts for business research, wind power, and foreign profits. It’s worth remembering that if a...
View ArticleIs It a Business Man’s World?
Corporate tax reform: It wouldn’t affect all businesses. A cut in the corporate tax rate won’t benefit millions of unincorporated businesses, and those firms don’t think that’s fair. These include...
View ArticleCorporate Tax Reform: Some Agreement, But Is Agreement Enough?
The President’s plan for corporate tax reform: Incomplete. TPC’s Howard Gleckman explains that while Obama’s budget renewed his call for cutting corporate tax rates, he again failed to show how he’d...
View ArticleTax Struggles and Tax Sneaks
Senate Finance Committee Chair Hatch wants a tax reform bill in 2015.Tax Analysts reports that the Utah Republican aims to mark up a bill later this year. Speaking at Arent Fox, LLP, yesterday, Hatch...
View ArticleWishes, Dreams, and Bittersweet Denials
Be careful what you wish for. Businesses have backed an overhaul of the US tax code for quite some time, but their tune changes when it comes to corporate tax reform in other countries. The Base...
View ArticleAn Interesting New Corporate Tax Reform Plan
In a rare bit of bipartisan consensus, lawmakers of both parties agree that the U.S. needs to fix its corporate tax system. Statutory rates are among the highest in the world, yet many firms are so...
View ArticleCould the EU’s Apple Tax Reboot Corporate Tax Reform in the US?
For years, corporate tax reform in the US has been dead in the water, in part because of deep disagreements within the American business community over what such a restructuring should look like. But...
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