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
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
Re “County to crack down on corporate homebuyers and landlords amid record prices” (July 16): For years we have seen corporations paying cash to buy more and more houses, then rent them. The article mentions the numbers are only increasing.How about this simple partial solution: The county decides upon a maximum number of homes that … Read more
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
The incidence and distributional effects of changes to the corporate income tax—like those in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—are one of the most hotly contested issues in economic policy. The debate often follows a familiar script: Republicans claim that rank-and-file workers benefit while Democrats argue that affluent shareholders reap the gains. In a new paper, … Read more
MILWAUKEE — Former president Donald Trump is trying to present a more worker-friendly vision of the Republican Party at this week’s convention, but he has continued to make clear in private that he views himself as the best choice for billionaires and big business, according to donors who have attended fundraising events.Even as Trump leans … Read more
Just days before he met with President Joe Biden for a face-to-face debate in June, Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. The former president spoke about his views on everything from green energy and diet coke to foreign policy and his tax plan. He also floated JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon … Read more
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
Enacted via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the qualified business income deduction, or QBI, is worth up to 20% of eligible revenue, subject to limitations. That tax break is scheduled to expire after 2025 without changes from Congress, which could affect millions of filers. “It’s something that is very important to a … Read more
