Biden administration

– Corporate taxpayers with billion in income would pay 21 percent on their first 0 million in income, 25 percent on 0 million of their income, and 30 percent on billion of their income, resulting in a total tax bill of 6 million and an average tax rate of 27.3 percent.
– Graduated rate of corporate taxation was a feature of the corporate tax until recently.
– Approximately 99.7 percent of corporate taxpayers fall below the thresholds of million in tax payments.
– 87 percent of tax payments are made by corporations above the million tax payment threshold.
– Companies with tax payments of more than 0 million generate about billion in additional tax revenue.
– Tax revenues would increase by about billion in 2019 with the proposed reform.
– The tax code can discourage market power by levying a higher tax on firms likely to exercise it.
– International tax cooperation can limit tax competition pressures and reduce profit-shifting incentives.
– Market power provides a rationale for reconsidering tax preferences for very-high-profit large companies.
– Graduated corporate tax brackets would be straightforward to administer, especially for large companies.
– Tax policy should distinguish the normal return to capital from the above-normal return to capital to improve efficiency and equity of capital taxation.