Winning Customers around the World Begins at Home with Tax Reform
By Claire Buchan Parker (Huffington Post): As the tax reform debate in Washington develops, the argument against modernizing our international tax system seems to be based on some disturbingly narrow...
View ArticleWhat do the works of Shakespeare and the U.S. Tax Code have in common?
The Joint Committee on Taxation released a 568-page report detailing the findings of 11 House Ways and Means Committee tax reform working groups. Don’t have time to thumb through the reports? The U.S....
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Lawmakers seek public support for tax overhaul
By Susan Davis (USA Today): WASHINGTON — The top two tax writers on Capitol Hill want to overhaul the federal tax code for the first time since 1986 and they are soliciting help from the public to...
View ArticleEvent: Global Competitiveness and the Race to Generate Jobs & Investment
Congressional Briefing Sponsored by the LIFT America Coalition Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Global Competitiveness and the Race to Generate Jobs & Investment: The Case for U.S. International Tax Reform...
View ArticleTaxes Hurt Competitiveness Abroad
By Ike Brannon (George W. Bush Institute): Public Radio’s “Marketplace This Morning” recently ran a piece featuring an in-depth investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting that highlighted...
View ArticleSenator Levin’s Irresponsible Tax Approach
By Robert Hoffman (ITI): When it comes to identifying policymakers who will champion bipartisan, constructive approaches to fix our outdated, broken tax system and help U.S. companies to innovate,...
View ArticleHarvard study finds US losing edge on jobs
By Megan Woolhouse (Boston Globe): Business leaders expect the nation’s competitiveness to deteriorate, with companies less able to compete globally, pay workers well, or both, according to a new...
View ArticlePolitical Points Don’t Add Up to Tax Reform
By Dean C. Garfield (ITI): We all know that it’s easy in Washington to make almost any issue political, including tax policy. However, there is a clear difference in asking legitimate, tough questions...
View ArticleEnd the political circus on tax reform
By Dean C. Garfield (Politico): On Tuesday morning, a political sideshow masquerading as a Senate hearing will target America’s economic champions — companies that are creating American jobs and...
View ArticleSenator Rand Paul apologizes, blames Congress for tax woes at Senate hearing
(9to5Mac.com): Before either Apple CEO Tim Cook or Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer took the stand to testify on behalf of Apple to defend the company’s tax practices, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky lashed...
View ArticleWhat You Won’t Read in the News about the Apple Hearing
By Miguel A. Martinez, Jr. (ITI): The cameras were rolling in the Dirksen Senate Office Building today as Michigan Senator Carl Levin gaveled in his hearing on Apple’s tax practices. The news...
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Tax Foundation’s Scott Hodge and Kyle Pomerleau Argue for Corporate Tax Reform
(Tax Foundation): Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer testified before a Senate committee on Apple’s tax strategies. Media coverage of the hearing was heated and immediate, and Fox...
View ArticleDon’t blame Apple; blame the tax code
By Will Marshall (CNN): The Capitol Hill hearing on the IRS scandal this week upstaged another Senate investigation into how U.S. technology companies shelter earnings from domestic taxes. That was...
View ArticleIn Corporate Taxation, You Reap What You Sow
(By: Tom Giovanetti, Institute for Policy Innovation) This week those in the Government Class have shown us that they’ve become so accustomed to acting as rulers that they’ve lost all sense of their...
View ArticleEditorial: U.S. tax code needs a serious overhaul
(Detroit News): Congressional investigations into IRS, Apple underscore deeper problems with antiquated system Two Michigan politicians were in the Washington spotlight last week hosting political...
View ArticleNew York Times Understates Corporate Tax Rate
By Will McBride (Tax Foundation): It’s hard to deny the fact that the U.S. has the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the developed world, at 39.1 percent including federal, state and local...
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A lot has changed since 1962…
The last time the United States reformed its international tax laws, John F. Kennedy was president and America didn’t have much foreign competition economically. Since then, our trading partners have...
View ArticleCISCO CEO: We must reform our international tax system
Cisco CEO John Chambers spoke candidly on Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo Wednesday about reforming our international tax system and its economic and job boosting abilities. “The tax system is...
View ArticleU.S. Multinationals Paid More Than $100 Billion in Foreign Income Taxes
By Kyle Pomerleau (Tax Foundation): As Congress moves closer to debating fundamental tax reform, the amount U.S. multinational firms pay in taxes on their foreign income has become a common topic for...
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Corporate tax encourages U.S. firms to invest elsewhere
By Veronique de Rugy (Washington Examiner): Last week, the Senate held a hearing to investigate why Apple wouldn’t voluntarily turn over to the U.S. Treasury more tax revenue than the company actually...
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