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Legislative Update: The Pre-Thanksgiving Edition

We’re tracking two key tax items at the moment – tax extenders and international reform. Here’s our outlook for both.

For extenders, Congress has once again ignored the needs of American businesses by delaying adoption of a multi-year extender package until the last possible moment. What’s the point of encouraging businesses to invest in new equipment if those provisions are enacted only retroactively? Not only does it undermine the policy, it creates a dynamic where pass through owners are required to overpay their taxes over the course of the year, draining money from their businesses and reducing their ability to hire …

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admin2019-02-01T19:59:03+00:00November 18, 2015|

Legislative Update and Treasury’s Effective Rate Study

Legislative Outlook, Post-Boehner Announcement

Speaker Boehner’s announcement that he plans to retire at the end of October has implications for tax policy and next year’s spending levels. Here’s our outlook for both.

International Tax Reform: Lots of noise on the tax front. The latest rumors on the Ryan-Schumer plan to pair highway funding with international tax reforms are that:

The plan is complete and has been sent up to the Administration for their review and sign-off;
The plan is not finished and is hung up over a disagreement regarding how much to spend on highways;
The plan will be presented to the Ways & Means …

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admin2019-02-01T19:59:04+00:00October 2, 2015|

Senate Finance Working Groups Release Reports

The Senate Finance Working Groups reports are done and publicly available! Many congrats to the Committee members and their staff for continuing the progress on tax reform. You can check out the reports here. The Business Income Tax report drafted by Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) is the one of most interest to us. We have to admit, the first few pages were bit a disappointing, as the introduction could lend the impression that pass through taxation (multiple business entities) is somehow a bad thing.

Our tax system also promotes inefficiency by incentivizing businesses to make decisions …

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admin2019-02-01T19:59:05+00:00July 10, 2015|

S Corp News Clips

More on Tax Reform

We’ve previously commented on Chairman Paul Ryan’s desire to do as much as he can this Congress to lay the groundwork for comprehensive tax reform in 2017. Now, in the Wall Street Journal, he gives us a better sense of what that groundwork looks like.

“There’s a big difference between our view and the president’s view. He believes we should have higher tax rates on individuals. We think they should be lower. And when eight out of 10 businesses in America are what we call pass-throughs, LLCs, sole proprietors, sub S corporations, their top effective tax right …

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admin2019-02-01T19:59:05+00:00June 26, 2015|