Lower personal, business income taxes take effect in Georgia • The Georgia Virtue

Lower personal, business income taxes take effect in Georgia • The Georgia Virtue

(The Center Square) — Several tax changes took effect on Monday, the start of fiscal 2025, including a decrease in Georgia’s personal and corporate income tax rates. House Bill 1015 lowers Georgia’s personal income tax rate to 5.39% from 5.49%, while HB 1023 sets the corporate income tax rate — previously 5.75% — to the same level as … Read more

Ministry proposes exemption on corporate taxes on income from green bond interest and carbon credits

Ministry proposes exemption on corporate taxes on income from green bond interest and carbon credits

The proposal aims to protect the environment and promote sustainable development in line with the global trend of using tax policies to incentivise environmentally friendly practices. (Photo courtesy of pace.edu.vn) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) – The Ministry of Finance is proposing amendments to the Law on Corporate Income Tax to encourage environmental protection and sustainable development. These … Read more

House Bill 4087 Revamps Tax Credits for Business Growth and Sustainability | JD Supra

House Bill 4087 Revamps Tax Credits for Business Growth and Sustainability | JD Supra

[co author: Dennard Small] House Bill 4087* (H.4087) advances income tax credits for corporate headquarters, recycling facilities, job development and retraining by amending the South Carolina Code of Laws to update portions of the South Carolina Income Tax Act and the Enterprise Zone Act of 1995. The primary objectives of this bill include: expanding the … Read more

Kevin Greenard: Corporate integration on capital gains ruined

Kevin Greenard: Corporate integration on capital gains ruined

The concept of integration is that income earned within a corporation should be somewhat equal to income earned personally, once dividends have been paid out of the corporation. Said another way, integration essentially attempts to make the combined income taxes paid by the corporation and the owner on income earned through the corporation to be … Read more

Corporations Have Already Paid Massive Taxes. Bring the Rate to Zero

Corporations Have Already Paid Massive Taxes. Bring the Rate 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

Korea to cut ‘value-up’ taxes, double foreign professionals by 2035 to revamp growth

Korea to cut 'value-up' taxes, double foreign professionals by 2035 to revamp growth

President Yoon Suk Yeol announces the Dynamic Economy Roadmap and the Economic Policy Direction for the latter half of the year at the Blue House in central Seoul on Wednesday. [YONHAP]   The government plans to reduce corporate and inheritance taxes for companies in the “value-up program” and more than double the number of foreign … Read more

FSC chair nominee calls for abolishing financial investment income tax

FSC chair nominee calls for abolishing financial investment income tax

First Vice Finance Minister Kim Byoung-hwan, nominee for chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), speaks to reporters during a press conference held at his temporary office in central Seoul, Friday. YonhapNominee shows confidence in Corporate Value-up ProgramBy Anna J. ParkThe nominee for the head of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), Korea’s top financial regulator, … Read more

Is it too easy for a small group to become a 501(c)(3)?

Is it too easy for a small group to become a 501(c)(3)?

For personal reasons, part of me wants the process to form a 501(c)(3) as simple as possible. I volunteer with the local high school’s parent-teacher organization (PTO), and by this time next year the organization must secure its tax-exempt status as a nonprofit public charity advancing education.That’s because our school district will no longer manage the financial assets of … Read more

How owning insurance in a corporation can address changes to the capital gains inclusion rate

How owning insurance in a corporation can address changes to the capital gains inclusion rate

Open this photo in gallery:Advisors can clear up misconceptions about insurance by having strong product knowledge and a comprehensive grasp of the client’s personal situation, finances and goals.SB/iStockPhoto / Getty Images Sign up for the Globe Advisor weekly newsletter for professional financial advisors. For more from Globe Advisor, visit our homepage.The increase in the capital … Read more

Six ways Jack Chambers might spend Ireland’s corporate tax windfall in Budget 2025

Six ways Jack Chambers might spend Ireland’s corporate tax windfall in Budget 2025

At the press briefing announcing the latest exchequer returns on Wednesday, the Department of Finance’s chief economist, John McCarthy, said his department estimated that about 50 per cent of the State’s €24 billion annual corporate tax take could be classified as “windfall” and potentially “non-recurring”.That means we’re accruing €12 billion in business tax receipts that … Read more