Presidential Election 2024: What Trump vs. Harris Could Mean for Federal Business Taxes

Presidential Election 2024: What Trump vs. Harris Could Mean for Federal Business Taxes

The outcome of the upcoming presidential election may significantly affect the changes in federal income taxes on businesses that will be made during the next presidential term of office. The next president’s success in passing specific legislation will depend enormously on the makeup of the next Congress. On November 5, 2024, in addition to the … Read more

VP Pick Tim Walz Enacted Progressive Tax Reforms in Minnesota

VP Pick Tim Walz Enacted Progressive Tax Reforms in Minnesota

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz isn’t generally regarded as a tax policy guy, but tax analysts and lawmakers say Vice President Kamala Harris’s new running mate has supervised the most dramatic shift toward progressive tax policy of any state in the country.While more than two dozen governors slashed individual and corporate taxes during the post-Covid period, … Read more

Use taxes as way to thwart growing corporate ownership of homes

Use taxes as way to thwart growing corporate ownership of homes

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

Caribbean unionists address corporate tax justice at capacity-building workshop

Caribbean unionists address corporate tax justice at capacity-building workshop

On June 6-7, 2024, over 20 union representatives from the Caribbean region convened at the historic headquarters of the Antiguan Workers’ Union for a workshop on corporate tax justice and sustainable development models. The event, part of the NUTJ’s global capacity-building efforts, featured insights on corporate tax avoidance, emphasising the necessity of analysing CIT policy … Read more

The High Cost of Wealth Taxes

The High Cost of Wealth Taxes

Wealth Tax Impact: Details & Analysis | Tax Foundation Skip to content Colombia, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland. Countries have repealed their wealth taxes for a variety of reasons. They raise little revenue, create high administrative costs, and induce an outflow of wealthy individuals and their money. Many policymakers have also recognized that high taxes on … Read more

Senate Democrats plan for a ‘tax Armageddon’ in 2025

Senate Democrats plan for a 'tax Armageddon' in 2025

SCOTUS Rejects Expansion of Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts, Leaves Broader Tax Questions for Another Day

SCOTUS Rejects Expansion of Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts, Leaves Broader Tax Questions for Another Day

June 20, 2024 June 20, 2024 Today, seven of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a tax on offshore corporate profits that was one of the few significant revenue-raisers in the Trump tax law. If the Court had agreed with the plaintiffs in the case — as well as … Read more

Biden’s plan to make corporations and billionaires pay more in taxes

Biden’s plan to make corporations and billionaires pay more in taxes

The president plans to raise taxes on billionaires and giant corporations to help fund more affordable housing and childcare, while keeping taxes the same for those earning under $400,000 per year. With the 2024 presidential election less than five months away, President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump have been busy highlighting their tax … Read more

Democrats’ plan to tax the rich and corporations begins to take shape

Democrats’ plan to tax the rich and corporations begins to take shape

Democrats are forging plans to raise tax rates on companies and wealthy individuals next year if they hold the White House and win control of both houses of Congress, as the party’s leaders increasingly see tax policy as a winning issue on the campaign trail.Senate Finance Committee Democrats met Thursday to discuss President Donald Trump’s … Read more

IRS wants to end tax loophole for the wealthy | Investment Executive

IRS wants to end tax loophole for the wealthy | Investment Executive

Biden administration officials said after evaluating the practice that there are no economic grounds for these transactions, with Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo calling it “really just a shell game.” The officials said the additional IRS funding provided through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act had enabled increased oversight and greater awareness of the practice. “These tax shelters … Read more