Tax Foundation President Scott A. Hodge on the economic impact of the 1-year payroll tax cut enacted as part of President Obama's tax compromise package.
Recently, we released an analysis looking at the potential total tax increase on the median four-person family in each state.[1] We found that higher income and lower states tended to...
With the fiscal cliff looming, lawmakers are looking for new revenues as a component of any bipartisan deal to reduce the federal deficit. While raising new revenues may be politically necessary to seal a deal, lawmakers must keep in mind that...
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Ahead of the Senate hearing on “Offshore Profit Shifting and the U.S. Tax Code,” I released a report reminding us that contrary to the perception created by these types of political spectacles, corporations pay a...
In a hearing where Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) deemed Apple’s tax planning “the Holy Grail of tax avoidance,” Apple CEO Tim Cook’s appearance before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations resulted in a show...