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In some states, pass-through businesses face marginal tax rates over 40 percent, pass-through business federal and state tax rate, pass-through business tax, pass-through businesses, private sector employment
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Marginal Tax Rates for Pass-through Businesses Vary by State

Pass-through businesses are now the dominant business form in the U.S., making up more than half of the private sector workforce in every state. Federal taxes on income set a minimum tax rate for pass throughs, but marginal rates for pass throughs vary based on how states tax individual income.

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State Corporate Income Taxes Increase Tax Burden on Corporate Profits, combined corporate tax rankings, state and federal combined corporate tax rate
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State Corporate Income Taxes Increase Tax Burden on Corporate Profits

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) reduced the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. However, most U.S. states also tax corporate income. These state-level taxes mean the average statutory corporate income tax rate in the U.S., which combines the average of state corporate income tax rates with the federal corporate income tax rate, is 25.8 percent in 2019.

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business pay fair share, do corporations pay their fair share in taxes? business tax collections , business fair share taxes
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U.S. Businesses Pay or Remit 93 Percent of All Taxes Collected in America

Setting aside the debate over whether a low tax bill is fair, what is missed in such stories is that American businesses are critical to the tax collection system at every level of government—federal, state, and local. Businesses either pay or remit more than 93 percent of all the taxes collected by governments in the U.S. Without businesses as their taxpayers and tax collectors, American governments would not have the resources to provide even the most basic services.

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