The High Cost of Wealth Taxes

The High Cost of Wealth Taxes

Wealth Tax Impact: Details & Analysis | Tax Foundation Skip to content Colombia, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland. Countries have repealed their wealth taxes for a variety of reasons. They raise little revenue, create high administrative costs, and induce an outflow of wealthy individuals and their money. Many policymakers have also recognized that high taxes on … Read more

IRS Issues Final Regulations For Tax On Corporate Stock Buybacks

IRS Issues Final Regulations For Tax On Corporate Stock Buybacks

proposed regulations that would provide new guidance related to the tax. Those regulations were made final on June 28, 2024, and scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on July 3, 2024. Corporate Buybacks A stock buyback is precisely what it sounds like a company repurchases shares from its shareholders directly or from the open … Read more

Dear chancellor, follow the Irish model

Dear chancellor, follow the Irish model

Investment is the engine of growth.A permanently high corporation tax (CT) rate could severely damage future investment into the UK and stifle homegrown entrepreneurship at a time when this country needs both desperately.Is there an alternative? Perhaps our nearest neighbour provides the perfect example.Let’s look at Ireland’s experience of a long-term tax strategy and a … Read more

End Excessive Double Taxation, and Bring the Corporate Tax To Zero

End Excessive Double Taxation, and Bring the Corporate Tax To Zero

It cannot be stressed enough that the corporation as a taxpaying entity is a fiction. And the previous assertion should in no way be construed as a suggestion that corporations pay no taxes. Quite the opposite. At the same time, this write-up’s opening line is just a comment that shareholders pay all corporate taxes, which … Read more

Europe, US markets point higher; Bitcoin momentum improves

Europe, US markets point higher; Bitcoin momentum improves

By Naeem Aslam     European and US stock futures are trading higher on the first trading day of the second half of the year, with another reason for traders to feel a little more confident Monday being the news of the first round of the French snap parliamentary election. France is the second-largest economy in … Read more

Tax Policy Questions 2024 Presidential Candidates Should Address

Tax Policy Questions 2024 Presidential Candidates Should Address

2024 Presidential Debate Tax Policy Issues | Tax Foundation Skip to content Home • Blog • Tax Policy Questions 2024 Presidential Candidates Should Address election. The future of the US tax code is one topic that should take center stage, as the next occupant of the White House will have to address the expiring individual … Read more

Debate moves needle for markets in Trump, ’s favour

Debate moves needle for markets in Trump, ’s favour

​Markets assess Donald Trump was the victor in the first US presidential debate against Joe Biden on Thursday and investors are “already busy” re-evaluating their portfolios to align with the anticipated economic policies that a Trump administration might pursue. Following the head-to-head TV debate, online prediction market PredictIt showed Biden’s odds down to 39% from … Read more

2 ways for mutual funds to handle higher capital gains inclusion rate | Advisor.ca

2 ways for mutual funds to handle higher capital gains inclusion rate | Advisor.ca

AdobeStock / NongAsimo The new capital gains inclusion rate requires mutual funds to make an important choice. Mutual fund trusts and corporations — including ETFs — can flow out their capital gains to fund holders, and this year they must decide how to do so. The fund industry “was largely expecting this type of election … Read more

Congress Should Look To States For Tax Reform Ideas

Congress Should Look To States For Tax Reform Ideas

Major pieces of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) expire at the end of 2025, at which time taxes will increase by over $400 billion annually. While the TCJA improved the federal tax code, Congress and whoever the next president is should look to the states for ideas to make it even better. … Read more

Sources of Personal Income, Tax Year 2021

Sources of Personal Income, Tax Year 2021

Sources of Personal Income Tax Returns Data | Tax Foundation Skip to content taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. returns. About 61 percent ($9.0 trillion) consisted of wages and salaries, and … Read more