Justices-in-public watch: 💥 Breyer continues book tour (including @colbertlateshow two nights ago).💥 Barrett gave a speech Sunday @uofl.💥 Thomas is slated to give the 2021 Tocqueville Lecture today @NotreDame (but, like Barrett’s speech, there is apparently no livestream). Source
Note: Below is an excerpt of the 2021 Spanish Regional Tax Competitiveness Index (RTCI), a recent report published in collaboration with Fundación para el Avance de la Libertad. The RTCI for Spain is designed to analyze how well regions structure their tax systems, allows policymakers, businesses, and taxpayers to evaluate and measure how their regions’ tax systems compare, […]
As Congress considers several tax proposals designed to raise taxes on high-income earners, it’s worth considering the distribution of the existing tax code. While the image that rich Americans pay little taxes is popular, it’s a misconception: high-income individuals already pay a large share of taxes, even when compared to their share of national income. […]
Petitions of the week By Andrew Hamm on Sep 17, 2021 at 3:17 pm This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the Constitution limits court-martial jurisdiction over retired servicemembers, whether a plaintiff must prove prejudice to show that a defendant waived a right to arbitrate, […]
Justices-in-public watch: 💥 Breyer continues book tour (including @colbertlateshow two nights ago).💥 Barrett gave a speech Sunday @uofl.💥 Thomas is slated to give the 2021 Tocqueville Lecture today @NotreDame (but, like Barrett’s speech, there is apparently no livestream). Source
Under the House Democrats’ reconciliation plan, the top tax rate on pass-through business income would exceed 50 percent in most states. Pass-through businesses, such as sole proprietorships, S corporations, and partnerships, make up a majority of businesses and majority of private sector employment in the United States. The owners of these firms pay individual income tax on income derived from these […]
The International Tax Competitiveness Index has been used to compare the tax systems of OECD countries since 2014. At that time, the United States ranked 28th out of 36 countries in the Index. Following the 2017 tax reform, the rank improved dramatically, to 20th, and the U.S. now ranks 21st. The legislation put forward by […]
Preliminary Revenue and Economic Estimates Revenue (Trillions) Long-run GDP Wages FTE Jobs Source: Tax Foundation Taxes and Growth Model, September 2021. Democratic lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Committee have advanced legislation containing the tax elements of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. The draft legislation could be modified by the House Rules Committee […]
Justices-in-public watch: 💥 Breyer continues book tour (including @colbertlateshow two nights ago).💥 Barrett gave a speech Sunday @uofl.💥 Thomas is slated to give the 2021 Tocqueville Lecture today @NotreDame (but, like Barrett’s speech, there is apparently no livestream). Source
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