The Washington Wire Archive - The S Corporation Association

S-CORP Responds to Washington Post Fact Checker

The art of fact checking had its highs and lows over the course of the last election, but the Washington Post‘s recent review our study by Ernst & Young has to be a new low.

The Post reviewed the study conducted by Ernst & Young looking at the long-term economic effects of higher marginal tax rates on wage and investment income. The study was entitled the “Long-run macroeconomic impact of increasing tax rates on high-income taxpayers in 2013″ and it found that allowing rates to rise to President Obama’s preferred levels would result in lower levels of employment, wages and investment.

This …

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admin2019-02-01T20:12:18+00:00November 19, 2012|

Fiscal (Slope) Cliff Forecast

While everyone in Washington waits for Tuesday’s election results, this story in The Hill caught our eye: “Fiscal cliff already weighing on economy.” According to the story:

While the expiring tax cuts and automatic spending cuts that make up the cliff do not take effect until the beginning of 2013, Pawlenty said he is hearing from financial firms that businesses are already halting business activity because they are not sure what will happen.

For example, 61 percent of JPMorgan’s U.S. clients are altering their hiring plans because of the cliff, and 42 percent of fund managers for Bank of America identify …

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admin2019-02-01T20:12:33+00:00November 5, 2012|

S Corporations Featured in Presidential Debate

This week’s Presidential debate featured both of our recent S-Corp studies — the first highlighting how many Americans work for pass-through businesses, and the second making clear that the pending higher tax rates will result in fewer jobs, lower wages, and less capital investment.

On pass-through jobs:

Governor Romney: But let’s get to the bottom line. That is, I want to bring down rates. I want to bring the rates down, at the same time, lower deductions and exemptions and credits and so forth, so we keep getting the revenue we need. And you think, well, then why lower the rates? And …

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admin2019-02-01T20:12:39+00:00October 5, 2012|

Tax Outlook

With the Republican convention behind us and the Democratic one this week, we thought it would be worthwhile to assess what the business community can expect on taxes in the next six months. We break the outlook into three buckets:

First, the need to extend the tax policies set to expire on January 1;
Second, the need to make more fundamental changes to the tax code; and
Third, what to do about those pesky tax “extenders?”

2001 & 2003 Tax Cuts

Bucket one is easiest, since both sides have outlined their positions. The Republican House adopted legislation to generally extend all the 2001 …

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admin2019-02-01T20:12:49+00:00September 4, 2012|

Rate Debate Update

The rate debate continues. Last week, the Senate failed to extend all the current tax rates and policies by a vote of 45-54. Two Republicans voted against the measure because of a refundable credit issue and one Republican missed the vote due to illness, but even if you adjust for those votes, the Senate still came up short of a majority for not raising taxes on employers during a period of severely high unemployment.

Very disappointing and something pass-through businesses and the markets should pay sharp attention to.

We expect better results today and tomorrow when the House votes on two related …

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admin2019-02-01T20:12:58+00:00August 1, 2012|