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Pass-Through Businesses Get Their Day

On the heels of the release of the Ways and Means Committee’s discussion draft to reform the international tax code and drop the corporate rate to 25 percent, a Subcommittee of the House Committee on Small Business held a hearing Thursday morning to discuss how and why the business tax reform needs to include pass-through businesses.

Entitled “Pro-Growth Tax Policy: Why Small Businesses Need Individual Tax Reform,” the hearing was rife with good testimony. Tax Notes had a nice write-up on it this morning:

“Flow-through businesses would lose the benefit of widely used and long-standing provisions, such as accelerated depreciation and …

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Ways & Means Releases Tax Reform Outline — Part I

The Ways and Means Committee Republicans released their long-awaited draft on international tax reform today. According to the Committee, today’s release is part of a series of reforms to be outlined by the Committee in coming months, the whole of which would make up a comprehensive rewrite of the tax code.

Good news there. As our Washington Wire readers know, we’ve been making the case since last January that any reform effort needs to be comprehensive.

According to the Committee: “Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) unveiled an international tax reform discussion draft as part of the Committee’s broader …

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