ROBERT FRANK, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: They «re calling it the great conversion, taxpayers turning themselves into limited liability companies and S - corps in order to
lower their tax bill under the new tax law.
Not exact matches
The
tax bill lowers the corporate
tax rate from 35 % to 21 %, eliminates the penalty
under the Affordable Care Act for failing to have health insurance, a narrower estate
tax, and cuts the top effective marginal
tax rate for S corporations to a top rate of 29.6 percent, among other measures that gives the biggest breaks to the wealthiest individuals and companies.
The
bill's passage also potentially complicates Treasury issuance relative to the debt ceiling, as
lower tax receipts
under the new
tax plan could cause Treasury to run out of extraordinary measures earlier than originally thought.
Observation: Although the standard deduction increases for all taxpayers, because of the increase in the bottom
tax rate from 10 % to 12 % and the elimination of personal exemptions, some
lower income taxpayers could see a small increase in their
tax bills under the Trump
tax plan.
The highest - earning Americans will get a
lower tax rate and corporations will pay slightly more than in previous plans
under a deal House and Senate Republicans reached on the party's competing
tax - overhaul
bills.
Under the
bill, companies that domestically manufacture products based on U.S. patents will pay a
lower corporate
tax rate — 15 percent compared to the usual 35 percent.
The
Bills also repeal the
tax haven addback found
under Oregon Revised Statutes section 317.716 and require the Department of Revenue to evaluate the efficacy of including global intangible
low -
taxed income (GILTI)
under IRC § 951A in the state
tax base in comparison to Oregon's now - repealed
tax haven addback, with a report to be issued on or before December 1, 2020.
Under the old code, a household's income received
tax relief through divorce because the higher - paid earner (typically, with the bigger
tax bill), is transferring income to the
lower - paid spouse, (who often has a less burdensome
tax rate).
«REALTORS ® believe in the promise of
lower tax rates, but this
bill is nowhere near as good a deal as the one middle - class homeowners get
under current law.