It's hard for a company in any of the three countries to know how to calculate the payoffs of sourcing car parts from the US or building a factory in Mexico if, in a just few years, access to those parts or that labor might become a lot more costly if NAFTA collapses and
border taxes start soaring.
Not exact matches
White House press secretary Sean Spicer then followed this up with comments suggesting that the Trump administration is considering a 20 %
tax on imports,
starting with Mexico, that would help finance the building of a
border wall between the US and Mexico.
Last year, before his inauguration, Trump tweeted that General Motors would «pay big
border tax» if it
started manufacturing cars in Mexico.
The World Bank Ease of Doing Business rankings assessed countries based on 11 indicators such as
starting a business, access to a credit facility, registering a property, access to electricity, paying
taxes, protecting minority investors, trading across
borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.
Through case studies and legal research the publication measures aspects of regulation affecting 11 areas of the life of a business, such as
starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying
taxes, trading across
borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.
Ten of these areas are included in this year's ranking on the ease of doing business:
starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying
taxes, trading across
borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.
Although the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is not likely to
start devoting as many resources to finding unreported offshore income as its counterpart in the U.S., it is clear that the issue has recently become a greater priority north of the
border, says Toronto
tax litigation lawyer David J. Rotfleisch.
The framework that Trump and congressional Republicans plan to release Wednesday would form the
starting point for the
tax debate in the coming months, which comes as the administration seeks a legislative victory in 2017 after failing to repeal Obamacare or win full funding to build a wall on the southern
border.
If international retailers
start to scale back operations to offset the costs of a
border adjustment
tax, will landlords have to imagine Lennox Square in Atlanta without TopShop, Boston's Downtown Crossing without Primark, or Manhattan's Fifth Avenue without an H&M?