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The Inflation Reduction Act’s buyback tax restrains public company growth – Competitive Enterprise Institute

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The Inflation Reduction Act’s buyback tax restrains public company growth - Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Biden administration and a Democratic-controlled Congress imposed a new tax on corporate stock buybacks as part of the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022. It hasn’t gone well. Corporations use stock buybacks to grow. Buybacks signal to a company’s shareholders that the company’s investments are in demand and that the firm is in good financial health. That incentivizes investors to want to … Read more

Puerto Rican Competitiveness and Pillar Two

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Puerto Rican Competitiveness and Pillar Two

Puerto Rico Tax Competitiveness and Pillar Two Skip to content profit shiftingProfit shifting is when multinational companies reduce their tax burden by moving the location of their profits from high-tax countries to low-tax jurisdictions and tax havens. . Pillar Two, the global minimum taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, … Read more

US Big Tech Companies’ Complicated Role in Ireland’s Booming Economy

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US Big Tech Companies’ Complicated Role in Ireland’s Booming Economy

Google’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images Ireland, despite its small land size and population, is among the wealthiest countries in the world. The island nation boasted a GDP per capita of $104,270 in 2023, according to the IMF, next only to Luxembourg and higher than the U.S., Switzerland, Singapore and … Read more

Here’s What a Trump Win in November Would Mean for the Tax Burden on Corporations

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Here’s What a Trump Win in November Would Mean for the Tax Burden on Corporations

July 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM Aces/SplashNews.com / Aces/SplashNews.com The 2024 presidential election is top of mind and, if you are a shareholder in a company, you might be paying more attention to Donald Trump’s campaign in the upcoming months. Not only will you cast your vote for the next president of the United States … Read more

Where do Canada’s soaring corporate profits go? Not ‘back into the country’ ⋆ The Breach

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Where do Canada’s soaring corporate profits go? Not ‘back into the country’ ⋆ The Breach

Loblaw chairman Galen Weston Jr, the creaseless face of inherited Canadian wealth, smiled serenely at parliamentarians as he explained why, when it came to rising food prices, his company was blameless. Speaking to an agri-food committee in the spring of 2023, he told them that Loblaw’s profit “goes back into the country.” “The profit we … Read more

Why Small Businesses Need This 2017 Tax Cut to Continue

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Why Small Businesses Need This 2017 Tax Cut to Continue

By Nathan Garden, The Charlotte Observer (TNS) It says a lot about our politics that very few of our leaders are talking about one of the most important issues. The small businesses that anchor our economy are about to face a devastating tax hike that will hurt workers and weaken communities. As the owner of … Read more

Georgia continues healthy tax revenues coming into state coffers, increase from corporate taxes

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Georgia continues healthy tax revenues coming into state coffers, increase from corporate taxes

Georgia continues to see healthy tax revenues coming into state coffers. According to Governor Brian Kemp’s office, net tax revenue for June came in at $3 billion, a 6.5% increase from June 2023.Much of that growth was driven by a nearly 32% increase in money from corporate taxes. State officials issued less in corporate tax … Read more

Montana’s housing crisis is a warning for older homeowners across the country

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Montana's housing crisis is a warning for older homeowners across the country

Economy Montana’s housing crisis is a warning for older homeowners across the country Eliza Relman 2024-07-10T09:56:03Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. Twitter LinkedIn … Read more

Tennessee’s largest companies secure sales tax exemptions for everything from jet fuel to water • Tennessee Lookout

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Tennessee's largest companies secure sales tax exemptions for everything from jet fuel to water • Tennessee Lookout

Tyson chicken barns in West Tennessee on April 21, 2021. (Photo: John Partipilo) They’re scattered across the rural Tennessee landscape: blue-sided barns stretching the length of five U.S. football fields, clustered together in groups numbering as few as three to as many as 20. Each of Tennessee’s nearly 2,200 industrial chicken barns produce about 200,000 … Read more

MSP, loan waiver and crop insurance, crucial issues for farmers

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MSP, loan waiver and crop insurance, crucial issues for farmers

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance faced huge setbacks in the Lok Sabha elections in the agrarian belts of the country. The BJP lost in at least 38 seats in five States where the farmers’ movement against the policies of the Narendra Modi government was strong. This government is a continuation of the first … Read more