Corporate Tax Revenue Hit an All-Time High in 2021
This year’s robust corporate tax collections calls into question efforts by the administration and congressional Democrats to increase the corporate tax rate and raise other corporate taxes based on claims of relatively low tax collections following the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017.
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Should Tax Policy Play a Role in Tobacco Harm Reduction?
In an effort to raise roughly $100 billion, the House proposal would double cigarette taxes and increase all other tobacco and nicotine taxes to comparable rates—a strategy with severe unintended consequences.
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How Would the Ways and Means Proposal Affect Profit Shifting?
If Congress wants to reduce profit shifting, the proposal from the Ways and Means Committee is not an effective tool for this.
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Regional Tax Competition Is Stopping Spain from Becoming Europe’s Tax Hell
Tax competition has proven to be key in keeping tax hikes under control in some regions of Spain as regional governments look to copy Madrid’s tax reforms.
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Which Industries Would the Tax Hikes Target?
Using Tax Foundation’s Multinational Tax Model, we estimate the effective tax rates on controlled foreign corporation (CFC) profits under current law and under each of the proposed plans for business tax hikes.
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Placing the House Build Back Better Act Tax Increases in Historical Context
If the spending in the $3.5 trillion budget resolution were financed entirely from tax increases, it would rival as a share of GDP the tax increases used to finance World War II and the Korean War.
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2017 Tax Changes Increase the Benefit of Uncapping SALT Deductions for High Income Taxpayers
Our analysis illustrates how restoring the SALT deduction now would be more regressive than under prior law, strengthening the case for keeping the cap in place.
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Florida Lawmakers Should Provide Certainty Around the State’s Corporate Income Tax Rate Reduction
Florida is now the ninth state to implement or adopt a corporate income tax cut in 2021, with the state’s new rate the nation’s second lowest—for now.
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Federal Plastics Tax Is Not a Good Revenue Raiser
One of the Senate’s proposals to pay for the Build Back Better Act is a federal excise tax on virgin plastics, which are plastics that are not reprocessed or recovered.
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How Heavily Taxed Are U.S. Multinationals?
In general, the effective tax rates on the foreign profits of U.S. multinationals are not that low relative to the U.S. tax rate, contrary to popular rhetoric.
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