Sources of Personal Income, Tax Year 2021

Sources of Personal Income, Tax Year 2021

Sources of Personal Income Tax Returns Data | Tax Foundation Skip to content taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. returns. About 61 percent ($9.0 trillion) consisted of wages and salaries, and … Read more

A Debate Cheat Sheet for Business

A Debate Cheat Sheet for Business

Tax policy, inflation, the economy and markets will be some key issues for corporate America and Wall Street in tonight’s showdown between President Biden and Donald Trump. Economy, inflation and the fitness of both President Biden and Donald Trump will be in focus during tonight’s presidential debate.Jim Wilson/The New York Times Talking points All eyes … Read more

How to Successfully Start an AI Business in 2024

How to Successfully Start an AI Business in 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most innovative and disruptive technologies in recent decades. The AI market has expanded rapidly as more organizations recognize the value of leveraging big data to make intelligent business decisions and improve customer experiences.Moreover, the rise of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI platforms, such as Open AI’s … Read more

Biden urged to raise income tax to tackle dangerous US debt

Biden urged to raise income tax to tackle dangerous US debt

Joe Biden must raise income tax and cut pensions spending to slow the dangerous rise in the US national debt, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said.Corporate taxes also need to go up, economists suggest, while the US president needs to find a way to control spending on healthcare.Heavy borrowing and spending … 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

Jim de Bree | An Interesting Tax Decision from SCOTUS

Jim de Bree | An Interesting Tax Decision from SCOTUS

Last summer, I wrote two columns about a peculiar tax case that the Supreme Court decided to hear. Although the amount of tax involved in the case was less than $15,000, ruling in the taxpayer’s favor could have fundamentally gutted the Internal Revenue Code.  A major part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act … Read more

Four Out of 10 Corporations Filed Losses in Last Year’s Corporate Tax Reports

Four Out of 10 Corporations Filed Losses in Last Year's Corporate Tax Reports

The total corporate tax burden amounted to 81.6 trillion won (approximately $58.8 billion) last year, showing a decrease of 6.2 trillion won from the previous year. It was revealed that the number of corporations that filed corporate taxes last year exceeded one million. Among them, a significant portion, totaling 400,000 corporations, reported losses. According to … Read more

The Other Huge Difference Between Jamaal Bowman and George Latimer

The Other Huge Difference Between Jamaal Bowman and George Latimer

Politics / June 25, 2024 Yes, they disagree on Gaza. But the Democratic primary rivals are also far apart when it comes to taxing billionaires and multinational corporations. Ad Policy Jamaal Bowman and George Latimer during a debate on May 13, 2024.(News12) Media coverage of Tuesday’s Democratic primary battle between US Rep. Jamaal Bowman—the progressive … Read more

FACT Calls on Congress to Eliminate Wasteful Corporate Tax Break, Supreme Court Issues Landmark Tax Ruling: Just the FACTs 6/25/24

FACT Calls on Congress to Eliminate Wasteful Corporate Tax Break, Supreme Court Issues Landmark Tax Ruling: Just the FACTs 6/25/24

“Just the FACTs” is a round-up of news stories and information regarding efforts to combat corrupt financial practices, including offshore tax haven abuses, corporate secrecy, and money laundering through the financial system. Send feedback or items for future newsletters to Thomas Georges at tgeorges@thefactcoalition.org Here is the State of Play FACT Calls on Congress to … Read more

Big oil companies reject tax transparency push by activist investor – ICIJ

Big oil companies reject tax transparency push by activist investor - ICIJ

Shareholders at three of the world’s largest oil companies recently turned down tax transparency proposals from an activist investor. At Chevron, a proposal to publicly report the company’s earnings and tax bills in every country where it operates was defeated on May 29; 85% of votes were against the proposal. The shareholders followed recommendations from … Read more