LIFT America Statement in Response to Ways and Means Discussion Draft on Tax...
Washington, D.C. – Today, Claire Buchan Parker, spokeswoman for the LIFT (Let’s Invest for Tomorrow) America Coalition, issued the following statement regarding the discussion draft on tax reform...
View ArticleLIFT America Statement in Response to President Obama’s FY 2015 Budget
Washington, D.C. – Claire Buchan Parker, spokeswoman for the LIFT (Let’s Invest for Tomorrow) America Coalition, issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget:...
View ArticleWashington Continues to Ignore Tax Reform at Our Economy’s Peril
By Claire Buchan Parker - The common perception in Washington these days is that comprehensive tax reform is dead. The D.C. pundits say Capitol Hill wants to move on, and the election calendar dictates...
View ArticlePfizer-AstraZeneca Shows Us It’s High Time To Reform The Corporate Tax Code
By James Carter — Physics teaches us that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is true not just in the physical world but also in the world of corporate taxes and we are...
View ArticleThe Nation Takes Notice that our Tax Code is Fundamentally Broken: Will...
The common perception in Washington these days is that comprehensive tax reform is dead…Capitol Hill wants to move on, and the election calendar dictates that lawmakers turn their attention to the...
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The Slaughter & Rees Report: Message and Messenger
Single events sometimes crystalize broader issues. Thus the loud and pointed debate across the Atlantic about U.S.-headquartered Pfizer’s $100 billion-plus bid for U.K.-headquartered Astra-Zeneca. In...
View ArticleHow Much Do U.S. Multinational Corporations Pay in Foreign Income Taxes?
Multinationals reported paying more than $128 billion in foreign income taxes in 2010, prior to paying taxes in the U.S. Washington, DC —The question of how much multinational corporations pay in taxes...
View ArticleTax-Based Inversions: What is at Stake?
By Gordon Gray, American Action Forum: Pfizer’s potential acquisition of AstraZeneca, and its subsequent plans to become a U.K.–domiciled concern has drawn considerable attention to the idea of...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: The Lose-Lose Tax Policy Driving Away U.S. Business
By Michelle Hanlon, accounting professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management: Apple issued $12 billion of U.S. debt in April, which gave the company a domestic cash infusion that allowed it to keep...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: With Businesses Fleeing America, Congress Must Act
By Senator Rob Portman (R-OH): American businesses are heading for the exits to escape the U.S. tax code. Medical device company Medtronic announced recently that it planned to acquire the...
View ArticleNew #Eakinomics Video Explains Why U.S. Companies Move Overseas
As part of the #Eakinomics video series, the American Action Forum (@AAF) today released a new video that explains why U.S. companies decide to move their headquarters overseas after a merger. In the...
View ArticleWashington Times: Enabling American companies to compete at home and abroad
Tax reform must reach beyond U.S. borders: Consensus regarding the need to repair our long-broken tax code can be easily found among lawmakers of all stripes — Republican or Democrat — and pro-reform...
View ArticleThe True Patriotic Response to our Growing Tax Crisis
By Claire Buchan Parker - On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing that will examine a critical issue impacting the long-term health of the U.S. economy – our...
View ArticleWashington’s Out-of-Date Tax Code Is Destroying Jobs
By Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) - Our out-of-date tax code is turning American businesses into economic refugees. In the last five years alone, over thirty-five American companies have inverted, buying...
View ArticleCorporate taxes aren’t corporate patriotism
For the last several weeks, President Obama, politicians, Washington insiders and some in the media have filled the airwaves with inflammatory rhetoric about “inversion” transactions, in which U.S....
View ArticleBeyond Inversions: Pursuing Comprehensive Tax Reform
The Detroit News Editorial Staff Keep corporations home with tax reform “Instead of weighing measures to punish corporations that take advantage of these so-called tax inversions, the better approach...
View ArticleBeyond Inversions: Pursuing Comprehensive Tax Reform
The recent uptick in U.S. companies seeking to reincorporate overseas underscores the long overdue need to modernize our nation’s international tax system. Comprehensive tax reform is the best approach...
View ArticleForbes: No Inversion Is Not Unpatriotic. Yes We Need Corporate Tax Reform
By Yevgeniy Feyman - Several recent high profile deals have directed media and public attention to the topic of “tax inversion,” whereby a company moves its headquarters overseas (usually in an M&A...
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YOU’RE INVITED –“Tax Reform: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward” –...
Join us on Wednesday, September 10th at Business Roundtable for a dynamic discussion with Rep. David Camp and Jason Furman, CEA Chairman on “Tax Reform: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward” –...
View ArticleReforming Our International Tax System Is at the Heart of American Economic...
By Claire Buchan Parker - Ed Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California, recently released a paper (‘Competitiveness’ Has Nothing to Do with it) that essentially argues that...
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