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If your Departments follow this process--starting with settlement legislation being proposed and supported by the Administration--it is my intent to then introduce the settlement legislation at the Administration's request and consider…
I commend the courageous healthcare providers and nonprofit groups that are working in the midst of these attacks to provide health care to the millions under siege in Syria. Too many have died and too many more will die if we continue to…
ESSA represents a momentous opportunity for students and teachers alike by removing many of the overbearing Federal policies that stifled classroom instruction in the past.
Among the most significant--and inexplicable--inefficiencies in our business tax system is the fact that a significant portion of U.S. business income is taxed more than once.
I just hope we can all work together in the best interest of our country.
Clearly, we are not going to be able to do comprehensive tax reform this year.
I hope that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will work with me to ensure that my proposed changes take as many perspectives into account as possible.
We need to preserve one level of efficient tax on active business income. Having that active business income taxed at the shareholder level assures individual progressivity.
If you tell me the one person who can get a dividend under the dividend reduction regime without a corresponding withholding tax, I will tell you to whom everyone in the market will sell their stock the day before the deductible dividend…
The integration of shareholder and corporate taxation can achieve that goal.
Our tax system is in need of fundamental reform.
I am concerned about the fact that, if you have withholding on corporate interest but not withholding on other forms of interest, this may induce portfolio effects.
Eliminating the deduction for interest and a 35-percent withholding tax on interest are, essentially, the same.
This proposal has all of the benefits of shareholder or imputation credit integration, which is a system that has been proven to work well in European countries and in Australia.
A better, more efficient system would be one that integrates the taxation of corporate and individual income.
Without significant reforms to the corporate tax system, we will continue to see an erosion in our overall tax base along with diminished growth and diminished investment.
