Sentences with phrase «effective corporate tax rate»
According to KPMG's international business guide, Competitive Alternatives, Canada has the lowest effective corporate tax rate of ALL major economies:
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On the tax front, despite the recent exuberance over corporate tax policy, it's important to recognize that the average effective corporate tax rate is already just 20 % in the United States.
A report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy covering 2008 - 2015 estimates that capital - intensive industries such as the utilities, gas and electric sector paid only 3.1 percent effective corporate tax rate, telecommunications 11.5 percent and Internet services and retailing 15.6 percent effective rates.
The Congressional Budget Office puts the United States» current effective corporate tax rate at 18.6 percent, lower than that of some countries in Europe and Asia.
effective corporate tax rates which have been declining since WWII, and 4.)
Though committee chair Carl Levin would probably disagree with Paul's characterization of today's hearing as a politically motivated witch hunt, Paul's analysis is at least correct in the sense that corporations will always pay the least amount of taxes they can within the bounds of the law — and if anybody is to blame for low effective corporate tax rates, it's Congress.
It is also worth noting that effective corporate tax rates are lower today than in the past.
This being the reason our corporate tax rate at 30 % is one of the highest in the world but the effective corporate tax rate is only 12 %, one of the very lowest.
An outdated, not fit for purpose Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) regime, coupled with the «Check the Box» election, no exemption for foreign dividends, and pliant treaty partners like Luxembourg and Ireland (who can't compete unless they drop their Corporation Tax aspirations), and you have the perfect (tax) storm: very low effective corporate tax rate and long term tax deferral (there being no incentive for the likes of Apple to repatriate their profits to the US).