Yuri Zhivago
Mayor
what are they going to do now, when the socialist Kenyan Marxist anti-colonialist and secret Muslim will cut the corporate rates to 28%?
Will their hateful lying bosses abandon the #! agenda since the first day in office to unseat Obama and continue to filibuster, the pieces of Anti-American hateful shit that they are?
from NYT, the proposal will be to cut the current top corporate rate of 35% down to 28%, and to close a bunch of loopholes to make up the difference. Some other features include:
–a lower rate—25%–for manufacturers;
–a minimum tax rate on foreign earnings to discourage tax sheltering by multinationals;
–added incentives for R&D (probably making that tax credit permanent, something the admin has long supported) and clean energy investments;
–a bunch of other loophole closures…
And therein lies the rub. It is widely recognized that many corporations already pay far less than the statutory rate–from the WaPo story on the proposal:
Today, the U.S. corporate tax rate of 35 percent is one of the highest in the world, but an abundance of loopholes and deductions means that many companies pay far less than that — or nothing at all. Companies in the United States pay almost half the taxes than companies do in other rich countries, compared to the size of the economy, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Last I checked, we were collecting around 1.3% of GDP in revenue from the corporate sector. That’s low both in our own historical terms (the average has been about 2% over the past few decades) and especially in international terms, despite the fact that we have a higher statutory rate. And it’s not just the recession depressing corp revenues, though that’s part of it, because corporate profitability is once again soaring.
This tells you two things. First, a lot of companies take advantage of the breaks in the code and second, getting to a revenue-neutral 28% will mean taking away a lot of those goodies.
Some of the biggies are accelerated depreciation, interest deductibility, the ability to pass corporate capital gains over to the individual side of the code (where it gets favorable treatment), and a bunch of international loopholes, like deferral—the ability to avoid US taxation by holding multinational profits overseas.
I don’t think today’s release will go into much detail on specifics but the implication is clear: if those who have been clamoring for a lower corporate rate are serious, they need to step up and support these loophole closures.
In that sense, the White House’s proposal creates an interesting political challenge. For years now, American corporations and their reps here in DC have been calling for a lower rate while at the same time availing themselves of billions in tax breaks that have kept them from paying the statutory rate. In my debates with supply-siders, they’re all about the rate…they’re happy to trade more base for points off of the rate. In the next chapter of this debate, we’ll get to see how much they meant it.
Everyone loves the first part of the mantra: lower the rates. Now let’s see how the feel about the second part: broaden the base.
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/corporate-tax-reform-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/
Will their hateful lying bosses abandon the #! agenda since the first day in office to unseat Obama and continue to filibuster, the pieces of Anti-American hateful shit that they are?
from NYT, the proposal will be to cut the current top corporate rate of 35% down to 28%, and to close a bunch of loopholes to make up the difference. Some other features include:
–a lower rate—25%–for manufacturers;
–a minimum tax rate on foreign earnings to discourage tax sheltering by multinationals;
–added incentives for R&D (probably making that tax credit permanent, something the admin has long supported) and clean energy investments;
–a bunch of other loophole closures…
And therein lies the rub. It is widely recognized that many corporations already pay far less than the statutory rate–from the WaPo story on the proposal:
Today, the U.S. corporate tax rate of 35 percent is one of the highest in the world, but an abundance of loopholes and deductions means that many companies pay far less than that — or nothing at all. Companies in the United States pay almost half the taxes than companies do in other rich countries, compared to the size of the economy, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Last I checked, we were collecting around 1.3% of GDP in revenue from the corporate sector. That’s low both in our own historical terms (the average has been about 2% over the past few decades) and especially in international terms, despite the fact that we have a higher statutory rate. And it’s not just the recession depressing corp revenues, though that’s part of it, because corporate profitability is once again soaring.
This tells you two things. First, a lot of companies take advantage of the breaks in the code and second, getting to a revenue-neutral 28% will mean taking away a lot of those goodies.
Some of the biggies are accelerated depreciation, interest deductibility, the ability to pass corporate capital gains over to the individual side of the code (where it gets favorable treatment), and a bunch of international loopholes, like deferral—the ability to avoid US taxation by holding multinational profits overseas.
I don’t think today’s release will go into much detail on specifics but the implication is clear: if those who have been clamoring for a lower corporate rate are serious, they need to step up and support these loophole closures.
In that sense, the White House’s proposal creates an interesting political challenge. For years now, American corporations and their reps here in DC have been calling for a lower rate while at the same time availing themselves of billions in tax breaks that have kept them from paying the statutory rate. In my debates with supply-siders, they’re all about the rate…they’re happy to trade more base for points off of the rate. In the next chapter of this debate, we’ll get to see how much they meant it.
Everyone loves the first part of the mantra: lower the rates. Now let’s see how the feel about the second part: broaden the base.
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/corporate-tax-reform-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/
