A key paragraph from today’s Politico Tax highlights a critical issue for Main Street businesses:

A good number of economists already say that extending the expiring TCJA individual provisions wouldn’t do much to further spur the economy. That’s part of the reason that Trump and his team are plugging some of his more targeted tax cut ideas, while other key Republicans are talking up key tax breaks for businesses, like full expensing for capital investments.

But that focus misses the point entirely. The question isn’t whether extending current policy would provide a bump– it’s whether allowing a massive tax hike to …

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Members of the Main Street Employers Coalition convened in South Bend, Indiana, today for a roundtable discussion with Congressman Rudy Yakym, who represents the state’s Second District and sits on the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee. The sole focus of the event was the Section 199A deduction, a provision that is central to tens of millions of Main Street businesses organized as pass-throughs.

Photo Credit: James Payne, NECA

The roundtable took place at the offices of electrical services provider Koontz-Wagner, a more than 100-year-old firm that is also a member …

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Latest update on all the studies, data, and other information S-Corp has compiled in support of the 199A deduction – including the new CRS METR estimates we posted on Monday. The materials below span more than a decade of work and highlight the central role the pass-through sector plays in the American economy, and the importance of the Section 199A deduction to these businesses.

Rate Analysis Tells the Full Story

The Congressional Research Service is out with a new study that demonstrates precisely why Section 199A permanence needs to be part of the 2025 tax package. The chart below explains why:

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As Congress puts together the big tax bill, CRS just produced another reminder of why making the Section 199A pass-through deduction permanent needs to be part of the package. This chart says it all:

The rates reflected here are important because they measure the overall tax burden imposed on new investment. As CRS notes: “The marginal effective tax rate (METR) is a forward-looking measure that estimates… the share of the rate of return on a prospective investment that is paid in taxes over the life of that investment.”

So under current law, …

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