Taxes

Key Findings One year after the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the law’s complicated tax increases on large corporations, particularly the minimum tax on book income, have resulted in extraordinary implementation challenges and taxpayer confusion, with many questions left unresolved. Payments for both the minimum tax and the stock buyback tax are currently
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A bill introduced in the Massachusetts House, (H. 74) would expand funding for community media programming by imposing a new tax on the gross revenues of digital streaming service providers. The sentiment is understandable, but the proposed solution leaves much to be desired. Municipally operated local access television channels, the no-frills stations residents can use
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Latest Updates Updated to reflect recent developments. Originally published. See Full Timeline Starting on September 1st, federal student loan payments will resume after a three-and-a-half-year pause on payments and accrued interest following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resumption comes three months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan debt
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Note: Remarks prepared for a congressional event, “Unraveling China’s Impact: Exploring Taxation, Illicit Trade, and the Nicotine Market in the United States,” on July 25, 2023. Taxation plays a key role in driving illicit trade. People respond to incentives, and sizable price markups for legal cigarettes create incentives for tax avoidance. Tax avoidance can take
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Transcript We may not like it, but we need taxes to raise revenue for all sorts of things that we depend on. But not all taxes are created equal. There are 3 main types of taxes: taxes on what you earn, what you buy, and what you own. Every type of tax impacts the economy,
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Patent box regimes (also referred to as intellectual property [IP] regimes) provide lower effective tax rates on income derived from IP. Most commonly, eligible types of IP are patents and software copyrights. Depending on the patent box regime, income derived from IP can include royalties, licensing fees, gains on the sale of IP, sales of
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Latest Updates Originally published on June 12, 2023, this analysis was updated on July 25th to include additional examples and details on itemizers. See Full Timeline House Republicans have proposed three new tax bills packaged as the American Families and Jobs Act that would temporarily extend certain business provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs
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Germany‘s finance minister, Christian Lindner (FDP), recently unveiled significant elements of the federal government’s tax reform proposal. With an estimated fiscal cost of EUR 6 billion, the proposal will comprise over 50 policy changes aimed at improving the country’s tax system. Two key provisions include enhancing the treatment of corporate losses and introducing an investment premium
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Latest Updates Post was updated to reflect recent developments. Originally published. See Full Timeline The Spanish election results are moving the country away from pro-growth tax reforms while launching the government’s tax agenda, and the agenda of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union, into uncertainty. Despite gaining 16 more seats than
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“The hardest thing in the world is to understand the income tax.” — Albert Einstein Every now and then, we are reminded that taxes can be complex and confusing, and understanding tax policy is an endeavor all its own. Even those of us who work at the Tax Foundation are not immune to this reality.
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The tax information you need all in one place. We’ve put together a master list of helpful articles for your tax situation, whether you’re preparing to file, in the process of filing, or waiting for your refund. If you’re self-employed, we have a section for that too. Let’s dive right in. Individual filers Stage 1:
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The tax treatment of U.S. businesses is a complicated and onerous process for tax preparers, revenue officials, and business owners alike. The tax system treats businesses differently based on their legal form, produces economic distortions, taxes income multiple times, and creates complexity and uncertainty for taxpayers. Even though business taxation has changed in the last
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