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The Importance of Pass Throughs

Put on your “must read” list a new paper from our friends at the Tax Foundation highlighting the importance of pass-through businesses to jobs and employment. It’s the best written and most comprehensive summary of the issue we’ve seen to date. Here’s how it starts:

Support for lowering the corporate tax rate – now the highest in the OECD – has been expressed by both Democrats and Republicans in order to improve the competitiveness of American businesses. However, they differ in their plans for the individual tax code. While Republicans have proposed lowering the top individual rate from 39.6 percent to …

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S-CORP’s Comments to the Senate Finance Committee

Today is the deadline for the so-called “clean slate” process in the Senate, and while S corporations and other pass-through business entities are (properly so) not tax expenditures, we thought it was important that the priorities of this community be made clear to tax writers as they begin drafting their reform plans over August.

With that in mind, today more than 70 (!) national business trade associations, including the American Farm Bureau, the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Restaurant Association, and the S Corporation Association, signed a letter reiterating the three tax reform priorities of the pass-through community:

First, …

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The Importance of Pass Throughs

S-CORP’s Comments to the Senate Finance Committee

S-CORP’s Comments to the Senate Finance Committee