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2019 International Tax Competitiveness Index

International Tax Competitiveness Index 2019

Our International Index compares OECD countries on over 40 variables that measure how well each country’s tax system promotes sustainable economic growth and investment.

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Cory Booker Estate Tax, Cory Booker step-up in basis, Cory Booker Tax, Expanding the estate tax, Eliminating step-up in basis

Booker’s Plan to Eliminate Step-up in Basis and Expand the Estate Tax

Removing step-up in basis would encourage taxpayers to realize capital gains and it would plug a hole in the current income tax, while increasing federal revenue. Combined, however, with the estate tax, this would result in a significant tax burden on certain saving by requiring both the appreciation in and total value of transferred property to be taxed at death

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tax treatment of capital gains, capital gains deferral, capital gains deferrals, Joe Biden's capital gains tax proposal, Biden capital gains tax proposal, Biden's tax proposal, realizations fall when capital gains tax rates rise

JCT Report Shows Capital Gains are Sensitive to Taxation

JCT’s report on capital gains elasticities reminds us that capital gains realizations, at least under a tax system that allows deferral, are sensitive to tax rates. Moving to mark-to-market taxation of all capital gains would remove this sensitivity by taxing capital gains annually.

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