…billion tax relief package that would extend tax cuts on dividends and capital gains and keep 15 million middle income taxpayers from getting hit with a tax designed for the…

…the effective tax rates paid by income bracket in 2003 (including both income and payroll taxes) in two scenarios: +in the hypothetical scenario where the tax laws had remained just…

…the corporate tax cuts were largely made permanent, the individual income and estate tax cuts were temporary and expire at the end of tax year 2025. Based on Congressional Budget…

…Billion Actual Taxes Paid: $1.5 Billion (2%) 2. Chevron Pre-tax Earnings: $46.6 Billion Actual Taxes Paid: $1.9 Billion (4%) 3. Apple Pre-tax Earnings: $34.2 Billion Actual Taxes Paid $3.9 Billion…

…that incentive decreases when tax rates go down. Additionally, most people’s behavior, frankly, is not affected by “normal” changes to tax rates; raise or lower the tax rates of someone…

by Linda Beale A quote from Amartya Sen, and my New Year’s Tax Resolutions (for Congress and the Obama Administration) The time between December 30 and January 4 seems to…

…$2.9 trillion. Anyway, pretty soon you’ll be talking about real money. Richard Rubin and Stephen Sloan direct us to a new Tax Policy Center assessment of the tax cuts in…

…profits in offshore tax havens with sophisticated tax planning like the “Dutch sandwich” techniques), and Big Oil and Big Agribusiness (outright subsidies built into well-lobbied tax and spending provisions). http://ataxingmatter.blogs.com/tax/2012/11/media-role-in-driving-the-fiscal-cliff.html…

…best explained in the last post: Now, consider the correlation between the top corporate marginal tax rate and the unemployment rate. If it is true that lower taxes = lower…

…back specifically to the tax reductions, this web site offers a lot: The Tax History Museum From reading the site, it appears a progressive tax system was put in place…