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Administration to Propose Taxing More Employers as C-Corporations

More chatter about the pending tax reform proposal being drafted by the Obama Treasury Department and its plan to force more pass-through businesses to pay taxes as C corporations. Reuters reported earlier this week:

The Obama administration is considering a plan to force more businesses to pay the corporate income tax, an industry group said, in an overhaul package that could be unveiled as early as this month. Under the proposal, entities with more than $50 million in gross receipts would pay the corporate income tax, instead of the individual income tax they now pay. Partnerships like law firms …

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admin2019-02-01T20:48:05+00:00May 4, 2011|

S-CORP Study in the News

As our Washington Wire readers know, S-CORP released a ground-breaking study on Tuesday by Bob Carroll and Gerald Prante from Ernst & Young. The study quantifies the economic footprint of flow-through businesses for jobs and investment as well measures the impact of corporate-only, revenue neutral tax reform would have on them. Employing more than half of the private workforce (69 million jobs), the study finds that flow-through businesses are essential to the U.S. economy. S corporations specifically employ one out of four private sector workers (31 million jobs).

The study also finds that the existence of flow-through businesses results in higher …

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admin2019-02-01T20:48:06+00:00April 14, 2011|

As Study Finds S Corps Employ One-Quarter of Private Sector Workers, New Legislation Improves S Corp Governance

Report Finds Flow-Through Businesses Essential to U.S. Economy

On the heels of a new report finding that flow-through businesses furnish more than half of the private sector jobs in the U.S., Ways & Means Committee members Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Ron Kind (D-WI) today will introduce the S Corporation Modernization Act of 2011 (H.R. 1478).

The study – released today and authored by Drs. Robert Carroll and Gerald Prante of Ernst & Young LLP – finds that fifty-four percent of all private sector employees (69 million) work for pass-through businesses, and one out of four private sector workers (31 million) …

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admin2019-02-01T20:48:06+00:00April 12, 2011|

Treasury to Propose Corporate Tax Reform Plan

Appearing before a subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee to discuss FY 2012 Treasury Department funding, Secretary Geithner said the Administration is ready to get the ball rolling on corporate tax reform, telling Senators, “I’m actually quite optimistic we’re going to be able to start that process with a very strong pro-investment, pro-growth, pro-competitiveness proposal.” Below is the video of his testimony (Discussion of tax reform can be found at 25:28).

There were few specifics on when, or in what form the proposal would take, but the …

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admin2019-02-01T20:48:06+00:00April 6, 2011|

The “Ideal” Way to Tax Businesses

The story on tax reform continues to progress. Last week, the Senate Finance Committee held another in its series of hearings on the various aspects of reform. This hearing, entitled “How do Complexity, Uncertainty, and Other Factors Impact Responses to Tax Incentives?” brought forth witnesses Dr. Robert Carroll, Dr. Eric Toder, and Dr. Raj Chetty.

The internet feed of the hearing was playing in the background on our computers last Wednesday when this exchange took place:

Senator Snowe: Dr. Carrol, could you give us some comments on [the corporate-only approach to tax reform because that is a problem, requiring flow-throughs to …

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admin2019-02-01T20:48:06+00:00April 5, 2011|