We could shift the failed tax preference for opportunity zones into a targeted strategy to create more jobs for rural America.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Can Corporate Tax Incentives Revive a Pandemic Economy? New Jersey Thinks They Can.
Under the cover of COVID-19, the state’s legislature will try to rush through massive tax breaks for big business next week.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: The Tax Time Bomb That Congress Can Defuse
And how McConnell suddenly needs a bill to save his Senate majority. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for December 17, 2020.
Posted inDay One Agenda
The Day One Agenda for Corporate Taxes
Even without Congress, President-elect Biden’s regulatory agencies can fix a lot of problems with the corporate tax code.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What We Can Do About Trump’s Tax Returns
It starts by actually following through on longtime campaign promises to make everyone pay their fair share.
Posted inEconomic Policy
All the President’s Tax Scams
Trump took it to a typical extreme, but the scandal is what’s legal.
Posted inPolitics
The $11 Billion Question: Will Californians Raise Commercial Property Taxes?
Proposition 15 leaps feet first onto California’s ‘third rail’ of state politics—the property tax system created in 1978 by Proposition 13.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Trump Wants to Cap Coronavirus Spending. OK, Repeal the Trump Tax Cuts Then
Also, Pelosi speaks on bailout oversight. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for July 17, 2020.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Decisive Tax Defeat for the Multinationals?
Altera, owned by Intel, just lost a major case on corporate offshore tax evasion. It could signal the end of ‘transfer pricing’—the most common and flagrant way big companies avoid taxes.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Deliver?
As millions of low-wage workers lose their jobs, and potentially their tax benefits, a debate over the EITC’s merit has taken on new importance.