effective tax rates - The S Corporation Association

Senate Finance Hearing on Corporate Integration

Remember the pass-through mantra for tax reform? All business income should be taxed once, it should be taxed at the same top rate, and then we should leave it alone! Well, that mantra was on display Tuesday when a panel of tax experts explored the benefits and costs of corporate integration. Here’s Dr. Michael Graetz:

“In the 1990s, principally because of its administrative advantages, the Treasury Department recommended taxing business income once—at the business level. This form of integration was advanced by President George W. Bush in 2003, but Congress instead simply lowered shareholders’ income tax rates on dividends. That …

(Read More)

admin2019-02-01T19:56:24+00:00May 19, 2016|

Study Shows S Corps Pay Their Fair Share… And Then Some

Today, the National Federation of Independent Business and the S Corporation Association released a new study showing that S corporations pay the highest effective rates of any business type.

The study, authored by Quantria Strategies, LLC, compares the tax burden different business entities will shoulder in 2013 and finds that S corporations will pay the highest average effective tax rate (31.6 percent of their income), followed by partnerships (29.4 percent), C corporations (17.8 percent) and Sole Proprietorships (15.1 percent).

The results of this study come at a critical time for tax reform. Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp and Finance Committee …

(Read More)

admin2019-02-01T20:08:24+00:00August 7, 2013|

Presidential Candidates and Their Tax Returns

So, we now have the tax returns for President Obama, Governor Romney, and Speaker Gingrich. Did anybody notice that the S corporation owner is the one with the highest effective tax rate?

Seriously, of the three, Newt Gingrich paid the highest effective tax (32 percent), followed by President Obama at 26 percent and then by Governor Romney at 14 percent. Given that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that S corporations pay no tax at all, that result might come as a surprise to their readers.

On the other hand, readers of the more authoritative S-Corp Washington Wire understand that of the …

(Read More)

admin2019-02-01T20:21:29+00:00January 30, 2012|

Using Pass-Throughs to Pay for Corporate Reform

Tax Notes has an article that pours more gasoline on the fire started by Bloomberg and the Geithner-led Treasury Department last weeks.

The piece, written by Martin Sullivan, argues that pass-through treatment of some firms “erodes” the corporate tax base and concludes:

In the meantime, corporate tax reformers are left in the awkward position of trying to improve a fundamentally unsound tax. If we broaden the corporate tax base by trimming tax incentives (for example, accelerated depreciation), should those same tax incentives be trimmed for passthrough entities? Many would like to keep tax reform confined to the corporate sector. But politics …

(Read More)

admin2019-02-01T20:48:06+00:00March 1, 2011|

Business Community Supports Estate Tax Relief

Last week, the S Corporation Association joined a group of nearly 50 small business organizations to support estate tax legislation (H.R. 3905) to make permanent rates and exclusion levels more favorable than those in place in 2009. In a letter to family business allies on the Ways and Means Committee, the Family Business Estate Tax Coalition stated:

The cost of the estate tax falls heavily on family businesses and farms. The cost comes not only from paying the …

(Read More)

admin2019-02-06T17:21:55+00:00November 13, 2009|