February 6, 2014
The tax reform effort may face significant headwinds, but the debate over who pays what continues, with the business community doing a good job of articulating just how much they pay in taxes and entities like the Congressional Budget Office, well, not.
Embedded in yesterday’s economic update is a section entitled “Corporate Income Taxes” that includes a chart showing the effective tax rate of the domestic profits of C corporations declining over time. The effective corporate tax rate was in the 30s during the 1970s, in the 20s during the 1980s and 1990s, but now is down in the teens.