Testimony: International Tax Avoidance
Lawmakers should aim for policies that support investment and hiring in the United States and refining anti-avoidance measures to improve administrability and lower compliance costs.
Tax Foundation experts regularly testify before the US Congress, in US statehouses, and in government institutions and parliaments throughout Europe.
Lawmakers should aim for policies that support investment and hiring in the United States and refining anti-avoidance measures to improve administrability and lower compliance costs.
If a multilateral solution to remove digital services taxes (DSTs) is not agreed to, then DSTs will continue to spread and mutate with negative impacts on some of the most innovative companies in the world.
It is essential to understand that the taxation of capital gains places a double tax on corporate income.
Watch Nicole Kaeding, Vice President of Federal and Special Projects at the Tax Foundation, testify before the House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcomittee on the impact of limiting the SALT deduction.
Tax policy can increase the size of the economy by having a positive impact on the incentives to work and invest. However, when tax policy is temporary or retroactive, these positive effects are muted, and policies do not effectively incentivize the intended activity.
Though the challenges to international tax policy are many, the OECD has a chance to work toward a system that creates fewer distortions and negative economic effects than the current one. However, given the policies on the table, it will certainly take quite an effort to avoid further complexity of international tax rules that creates challenges to global trade and economic prosperity.
Tax Foundation President, Scott Hodge, provides written testimony before the United States Joint Economic Committee on the economic growth effects of TCJA.
Texas lawmakers considering ways to reform the state’s tax code should seek to fix the sales tax base and repeal the economically-damaging margins tax.
Oregon’s Legislative Revenue Office anticipates a $40 million revenue loss in fiscal year 2019, for one simple reason: absent legislative action to the contrary, Oregon will adopt the new pass-through deduction, while most other states will not.