…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…

…it, taxes, taxes, taxes.” Shutting down tax avoidance schemes and forcing the wealthy to pay more in taxes is the only real solution to the problems that plague the world,…

…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…

…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…

…taxes? You should, for the humor value, if nothing else. In question 9, we learn how PwC calculated the average effective tax rate: they added the tax rate for each…

…lot, and continued slowing as tax rates fell further. 2. Option B: Administrations which lowered tax burdens early on suffered through poor growth later. Administrations which raised tax burdens early…

…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…