Senate Republicans are set to block a child tax credit expansion

Senate Republicans are set to block a child tax credit expansion

Senate Republicans are expected to block legislation Thursday to cut taxes for working families and extend some corporate tax breaks, likely dooming a bipartisan compromise that the House had overwhelmingly approved and raising the stakes on taxes for this fall’s elections.The $79 billion legislation would expand eligibility for the child tax credit, or CTC, among … Read more

Trump’s $48 billion corporate giveaway

Trump's $48 billion corporate giveaway

Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on July 20, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published earlier this month, Trump said that, if he wins a second term, he would push to slash the corporate tax rate: I brought the taxes down from 39% … Read more

Frustrated with Tipping? No Tax on Tips Could Make It Worse

Frustrated with Tipping? No Tax on Tips Could Make It Worse

Trump “No Tax on Tips” Proposal: Details & Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • Frustrated with Tipping? No Tax on Tips Could Make It Worse 72 percent of Americans have seen an expansion of tipping expectations over the past five years. While some Americans are certainly frustrated about the trend, one recent policy … Read more

Opinion: Some of Trump’s Tax Cuts Worked, But at What Cost?

Opinion: Some of Trump’s Tax Cuts Worked, But at What Cost?

By Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion (TNS) [Editor’s note: This opinion piece was published before President Joe Biden announced he would be dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.] Donald Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was the biggest corporate tax cut in U.S. history. How did it affect the economy? The question has taken … Read more

Aiming for more overseas investments: Proposal to slash corp tax on foreign cos to 35% will motivate to set up permanent base

Aiming for more overseas investments: Proposal to slash corp tax on foreign cos to 35% will motivate to set up permanent base

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed reducing the tax rate for foreign companies to 35% from 40%, aiming to attract more overseas firms to set up a permanent base in the country and boost foreign inflows. “We want more investment to come into the country that is why it has been brought down,” Sitharaman told reporters … Read more

Budget 2024: Modi 3.0’s first Budget slashes corporate tax rates for foreign firms to deal another blow to China

Budget 2024: Modi 3.0's first Budget slashes corporate tax rates for foreign firms to deal another blow to China

Modi 3.0’s first Budget proposed to slash tax rates for foreign companies investing in India, a move seen as providing more fillip to inviting more overseas players as the Narendra Modi government seeks to grab the supply chain shift from China.The Budget was expected to be a transformative step towards achieving the government’s goal of … Read more

Trump Planning Another Huge Tax Cut for His Donors

Trump Planning Another Huge Tax Cut for His Donors

During his presidency, Donald Trump slashed the corporate tax rate from 28 percent to 21 percent. If he’s elected again this year, Trump intends to further cut the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, according to new reporting in Bloomberg.  The 2017 Trump tax law is already an epic financial boondoggle, one that was designed … Read more

Five Tax Takeaways from 2024 State Legislative Sessions 

Five Tax Takeaways from 2024 State Legislative Sessions 

July 18, 2024 July 18, 2024 State lawmakers across the country navigated budget challenges and slowing revenue growth in 2024. This challenge was made worse by the winding down of temporary federal pandemic aid, coinciding with deep, permanent tax cuts. The impact of those tax cuts becomes clearer as they weigh on the ability of … Read more

Trump 2.0: Trump promises to cut corporate tax rate to 15% if elected as US President

Trump 2.0: Trump promises to cut corporate tax rate to 15% if elected as US President

Donald Trump reduced the corporate tax rate from 28% to 21% during his previous presidency and intends to further reduce it to 15% if elected again this year. Now, Trump proposes lowering the corporate tax rate to 15%, potentially cutting the US corporate tax rate by nearly half.In a wide-ranging interview on business and the … Read more

Tax cuts worth €500 million unveiled for 2025

Tax cuts worth €500 million unveiled for 2025

Finance Minister Gilles Roth has unveiled details of a package of tax cuts that will cost the state around €500 million a year from 2025, including reductions to personal and corporate taxes, tax credits for single parents and financial incentives for expats.The government has approved plans to adjust tax brackets by 2.5 indexations or 6.4% … Read more