UCLAW alum and now a visiting scholar and senior fellow in residence at the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law has a great summary of
the likely effect of tax reform on executive compensation.
Not exact matches
If there is an immediate threat to lofty stock valuations, it will
likely be investors overestimating the
effect of GOP
tax reform going forward, says Wilson.
And while there are lots
of high - income earners who will be affected, it has an unintended side
effect that small - business owners (the restaurant owner, the bike shop repairman and the dry cleaning operator), who are considered the backbone
of the economy, would
likely have to pay higher
taxes — and be worse off financially — as well.
The net
effect is
likely to be slower growth in
tax revenues in the first quarter
of 2018, and a possible fall in revenues as the year progresses.
Positive economic feedback
effects from a somewhat faster growing economy seem
likely to shrink the
tax bill's deficit impact relative to the «static scoring» estimate
of about $ 1.5 trillion.
Tax professionals will
likely need to review the bill text manually and measure their organization's specific circumstances against it to assess the impact
of the provisions and their holistic
effect on their organization's bottom line.
Tax reform
of this magnitude is the biggest change we've seen in a generation and will require intense focus to understand not only how the changes apply at the federal level, but also to navigate the ripple
effect this is
likely to have on state taxation as well.
Together with the stimulative
effects of tax cuts and more government spending, the most
likely outlook remains a robust one, with growth still reaching 2.8 % for 2018 and 3.0 % in 2019.
Most
of the key provisions
likely to affect individual taxpayers take
effect in 2018 (for
taxes that will be reported by April 2019), but are scheduled to sunset after 2026.
Because the abolition
of some
of the indirect
taxes will not take
effect immediately, the short - term
effect of the package on the price level is
likely to be larger than the long - run
effect.
The Bank's current assessment is that inflation (excluding
tax effects) is
likely to be in the upper part
of the target zone over the next four to six quarters, though inflation risks overall are tilted somewhat to the upside.
The Bank's current assessment is that inflation as measured by either the CPI or underlying measures is
likely to be in the upper part
of the 2 — 3 per cent target zone, once these temporary
tax effects have passed out
of the calculation.
JCT expects that business investment would
likely fall later in the decade, as the repeal
of accelerated depreciation in 2016 and the longer amortization
of intellectual property expenses begin to outweigh the positive
effects of lower
tax rates on business income.
The direct
effect of the
tax is most
likely that prices will go up only marginally.
Importantly, when one measures the distributional
effect of tax reform they must look at the entire plan; however, absent SALT repeal, it is more challenging to achieve distributional - neutrality and more
likely that
tax reform overall will be regressive in nature.
The net
effect is that a revenue
tax is more
likely to increase the price paid to the consumer than it is to reduce the profits
of the corporation.
Recently at the Business Council
of New York State's annual meeting, business leaders conceded that the $ 15 an hour minimum wage phase in is
likely to be approved by the legislature, and they said they were seeking sweeteners in the legislation to mitigate its
effects including new business
tax cuts and a youth employment fund.
«It is very
likely that NYSUT, as permitted by today's decision, will continue its challenge to the constitutionality
of the
tax cap, the
effect of which is worsened by the recently enacted
tax freeze.»
While he's put forth his initial 2018 agenda items, Cuomo has also been working to mitigate the
effects of the
tax reforms, which will
likely force many New Yorkers to pay higher overall
taxes, with measures such as allowing property
tax prepayments.
Instead, it is
likely that the most
effected by budget cuts will be working class and near poor children, those children who attend school districts that receive limited federal dollars but lack the advantages
of high local property values or school
taxes.
Volume growth will
likely rebound as the
effects of the excise
tax will not impact long - term growth.
The large corporate
tax reduction from a top rate
of 35 % to 21 % is
likely to have a more significant
effect on demand for munis.
The agency concluded that «the small number
of consumers who had civil judgments or
tax liens and experienced a score change large enough to improve their credit profile suggests that any
effects on overall model predictiveness (either positive or negative) are
likely minimal.»
These bottom - up pressures would
likely render such an agreement a dead letter, or at least make it in
effect a
tax applicable only to the law - abiding developed countries that represent an ever - shrinking share
of global carbon emissions.
So I struggle to see how it would reduce gdp growth, and its more
likely to be neutral in
effect, but
of course when you factor in the growth destroying aspect
of climate change, such a
tax is effectively enhancing growth.
It's been so good that some question the wisdom
of swapping the current system for a severance
tax — especially given a recent study showing that the net
effect likely would be less energy development, resulting in billions in economic losses and nearly 18,000 fewer jobs supported by 2025.
Once we take into account the
likely magnitude
of the
tax interaction
effect, the «optimal» carbon
tax is lower than the Pigovian amount.
The
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the sweeping new federal tax law enacted at the end of December 2017, contains a provision that will likely have a significant effect on how employers resolve claims involving sexual harassme
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the sweeping new federal
tax law enacted at the end of December 2017, contains a provision that will likely have a significant effect on how employers resolve claims involving sexual harassme
tax law enacted at the end
of December 2017, contains a provision that will
likely have a significant
effect on how employers resolve claims involving sexual harassment.
Studies suggest that reforms or policies that reduce family unemployment in combination with progressive
tax and benefit systems may be effective in reducing child poverty rates.64 Based on the findings from the current study, and many others, it is
likely that reducing the number
of children exposed to poverty will also have positive public health
effects.