The NJ budget: More taxes, less transparency and why we will all pay more in 2025

The NJ budget: More taxes, less transparency and why we will all pay more in 2025

3-minute read Audrey Lane  |  Special to the USA TODAY NetworkI spent the days leading up to passage of this year’s New Jersey state budget at the Statehouse in Trenton.  It was an eye-opening and, at times, frustrating experience. Our state’s economic and fiscal policies are resulting in deficit spending, and the process surrounding those policies … 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

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

​Analysis Shows How Surging Stock Buybacks Bolster Case for Corporate Tax Hike​ | Common Dreams

​Analysis Shows How Surging Stock Buybacks Bolster Case for Corporate Tax Hike​ | Common Dreams

With a battle over congressional Republicans and former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law brewing, a progressive think tank on Monday published an analysis that points to the surge in stock buybacks as proof that federal policymakers should raise the corporate tax rate. When Trump—the presumptive GOP nominee to challenge President Joe Biden in … Read more

Investments on the rise in healthcare

Investments on the rise in healthcare

In small economies such as Cyprus, investment opportunities are limited, especially those which can produce reasonable returns in relation to the risk involved. Due to the introduction of the general public health system, various groups of investors (including foreign ones) have turned their interest towards health related projects, either as healthcare centres or simply as … Read more

Feds should make capital gains tax exemption permanent for employee ownership trusts: report | Benefits Canada.com

Feds should make capital gains tax exemption permanent for employee ownership trusts: report | Benefits Canada.com

Canadian employees stand to greatly benefit from making EOTs widely available, says Simon Pek, an associate professor of business and society at the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business, and a co-author of the report.Read: Feds’ new tax exemption could drive more employers to leverage employee ownership trusts: expertAmong the policies raised in the report, … Read more

Budget 2024: A look at what corporate India expects from FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Budget 2024: A look at what corporate India expects from FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Budget 2024: Industry leaders requested a host of considerations in the upcoming full Union Budget 2024 during their pre-Budget meeting with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on June 20. Expectations listed by India Inc. during the two-hour interaction include a reduction in the income tax burden for the common man, an increase in capital expenditure, … Read more

Supreme Court rejects challenge to tax on foreign investments — but avoids wealth tax debate

Supreme Court rejects challenge to tax on foreign investments — but avoids wealth tax debate

An exterior view of the Supreme Court on June 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesIn a closely watched case, the Supreme Court on Thursday denied a challenge to a federal tax on certain foreign investments — but left questions about whether a wealth tax is constitutional.The case, Moore v. United States, focused … Read more

CCLEI , ‘marginally positive’ in May

CCLEI , ‘marginally positive’ in May

A leading indicator, used to predict the future direction of economic movements in Cyprus, turned marginally positive in May, halting the negative year-on-year growth of the index observed in the past three months. The Cyprus Composite Leading Economic Index (CCLEI), estimated by the Economics Research Centre (CypERC) of the University of Cyprus, recorded a year-over-year … Read more