Arkansas Enacts Fourth Tax Cut in Less than Two Years

Arkansas Enacts Fourth Tax Cut in Less than Two Years

Arkansas Enacts Fourth Tax Cut in Less than Two Years Skip to content Home • Blog • Arkansas Enacts Fourth Tax Cut in Less than Two Years Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) recently called a brief special legislative session to enact the fourth round of reductions to the Natural State’s individual and corporate income … Read more

How generative AI can empower corporate tax departments

How generative AI can empower corporate tax departments

The recent surge in artificial intelligence advancements has started to transform the professional services industry, and corporate tax departments are no exception. GenAI) presents a game-changing opportunity to transform corporate tax operations by enhancing human capabilities and driving strategic decision-making.   Insights from the 2024 Generative AI in Professional Services Report  In the realm of professional … Read more

How GenAI is changing corporate tax and what businesses can do about it

How GenAI is changing corporate tax and what businesses can do about it

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is beginning to manifest itself in corporate tax, presenting both advantages and concerns. As a transformative technology capable of generating human-like text, code, and other creative content, GenAI is posed to reshape the tax landscape.   Understanding the shift in GenAI adoption  The desire to use GenAI in corporate tax has seen … Read more

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 Countries have repealed their wealth taxes for a variety of reasons.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

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

Türkiye Says Aims to Rein in Tax Breaks, Target Avoidance in Reform Plan

Türkiye Says Aims to Rein in Tax Breaks, Target Avoidance in Reform Plan

A drive by Türkiye ‘s government to modernize the country’s tax system will seek to boost revenue by tackling tax avoidance and scrapping incentives that are no longer needed rather than raising the overall burden, the finance minister said on Monday. Mehmet Simsek said, however, that preliminary draft proposals being discussed within the government envisioned … Read more

Trump’s 2017 Tax Cut Created a Huge Stock-Buyback Spree

Trump’s 2017 Tax Cut Created a Huge Stock-Buyback Spree

For years we’ve been hearing that when President Donald Trump cut corporate taxes in 2017, corporations pissed away their tax savings on stock buybacks. Trump himself, in one of his rare episodes of truthfulness, admitted it. But that turns out not to be quite right. According to a new report by the public interest nonprofit … Read more

Supreme Court Holds That 2017 Mandatory Repatriation Tax Does Not Violate The Sixteenth Amendment

Supreme Court Holds That 2017 Mandatory Repatriation Tax Does Not Violate The Sixteenth Amendment

June 20, 2024 Click for PDF Moore v. United States, No. 22-800 – Decided June 20, 2024 Today, in a case widely seen as a test of Congress’s ability to enact wealth taxes, the Supreme Court held narrowly that Congress did not violate the Sixteenth Amendment by requiring U.S. shareholders to pay a one-time tax on … Read more

The European Union’s ViDA Proposal: Ignoring Principles Does Not Make Tax Policy Fairer

The European Union’s ViDA Proposal: Ignoring Principles Does Not Make Tax Policy Fairer

EU VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) Proposal | Tax Foundation Europe Skip to content Home • Blog • The European Union’s ViDA Proposal: Ignoring Principles Does Not Make Tax Policy Fairer discuss the EU’s VAT in the digital age (ViDA) proposal once again after Estonia’s veto on 14 May. The updated ViDA proposal, published … Read more

Biden’s plan to make corporations and billionaires pay more in taxes

Biden’s plan to make corporations and billionaires pay more in taxes

The president plans to raise taxes on billionaires and giant corporations to help fund more affordable housing and childcare, while keeping taxes the same for those earning under $400,000 per year. With the 2024 presidential election less than five months away, President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump have been busy highlighting their tax … Read more