…passed similar action. September 29, 2017 in Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), American History and tax, candidates and taxes, Corporate Taxes, Estate Tax, Tax in the News, tax returns and e-filing,…

…for “owners” compared to the disfavored treatment for taxation of workers’ wages. As the Tax Policy Center notes, the Senate version of the tax bill “would reduce taxes on business…

…a carbon tax, the government can simply return the tax revenue directly to consumers. Proponents of a carbon tax frequently suggest rebating carbon tax revenue to households on a per…

…tax code significantly more regressive.24 In 2013, a significant majority of the Bush tax cuts were made permanent with bipartisan support, locking in lower tax rates and deep cuts to the…

…not support nonrenewal of the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans? Why not support continued tightening of the corporate tax code, including restrictions on tax-free reorganizations that permit US multinationals…

…nation’s wealthiest people. Moreover, even when wealthy households do pay tax, they benefit from special low tax rates on capital income and other tax breaks that reduce their taxes. As…

…the [estate] tax” would be twice as much as the revenue gained from the current estate tax; the economic growth from eliminating the estate tax would “create thousands of new…

…estates. It is also true of income taxes in general, the way flat taxes would work, the rationales for the corporate tax and many other key tax policies. Lobbyists frame…

…lower corporate taxes, lower dividend rates, and/or change to a territorial tax system for U.S. corporations. See, e.g., Charting a Course for Tax Reform–Moving the U.S. Towards a Territorial Tax…

…should be used as often as possible to characterize the opponent or a policy proposal of the opponent. And since the Clinton campaign limits its responses and campaign rhetoric to…