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One Big Beautiful Bill Pros Cons

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act makes many of the individual tax cuts and reforms of the TCJA permanent. It improves upon the TCJA by making expensing for R&D and equipment permanent. However, for the most part, it does not include further structural reforms, and instead introduces many new, narrow tax breaks to the code, adding complexity and raising revenue costs.

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State Implications of the GILTI to NCTI Conversion The One, Big, Beautiful Bill’s (OBBB) changes to the taxation of international income

State Implications of the GILTI to NCTI Conversion

The One Big Beautiful Bill’s changes to the taxation of international income have surprising implications for state codes, yielding tax increases and a revised tax base that, through quirks of state incorporation, bears very little resemblance to the federal base and almost nothing of its purpose.

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European Digital Services Taxes DST State of Play

Digital Services Taxes State of Play

Policymakers continue to debate international tax rules after the US gained agreement on a new approach at the G7 that could result in US anti-avoidance policies existing side-by-side with the global minimum tax.

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No Tax on Social Security vs. Proposed $4,000 Senior Bonus Senior Tax Deduction One Big Beautiful Bill Act OBBB

How Does the Additional Senior Deduction Compare to No Tax on Social Security?

The increased senior deduction with the phaseout would deliver a larger tax cut to lower-middle- and middle-income taxpayers compared to exempting all Social Security benefits from income taxation and would not weaken the trust funds as much. But given the temporary nature of the policy, it would increase the deficit-impact of the reconciliation bills without boosting long-run economic growth.

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Taxes and the Road to Revolution: A Brief Overview

Independence Day is notable for its insistence not just on light taxation, but more importantly on taxation being subject to the consent of the governed through a representative form of government.

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qbai exemption, one big beautiful bill, fdii and gilti

A Partial Defense of the QBAI Exclusion

Lawmakers should consider maintaining QBAI and applying the several billion dollars from the Senate’s change toward other pro-growth international tax reforms instead.

6 min read
Big Beautiful Bill Impact on Economy and Economic Growth

Will the Big Beautiful Bill Lead to an Economic Boom or Just Modestly Higher Growth?

Lawmakers are right to be concerned about deficits and economic growth. The best path to address those concerns is to ensure OBBB provides permanent full expensing of capital investment, avoids inefficient tax cuts, and offsets remaining revenue losses by closing tax loopholes and reducing spending.

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Michigan Ballot Tax Plan: Progressive Income Tax for Education Invest in MI Kids Tax the Wealthy and Rich

Progressive Income Tax on the Ballot in Michigan?

If Michiganders are interested in increasing the state’s spending on education or other priorities—and believe that current revenues are insufficient to support such an increase—there are several ways to do so without significantly affecting residents’ incentives to live and work in Michigan.

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future of eu tax mix with stefanie geringer, university of vienna

Fiscal Forum: Future of the EU Tax Mix with Dr. Stefanie Geringer

Tax Foundation Europe’s Sean Bray had the opportunity to interview Dr. Stefanie Geringer, a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna and Masaryk University Brno, a certified tax advisor and manager of tax at BDO Austria, about the future of the EU tax mix.

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illinois budget, tax on gilti, business tax increase

Illinois Policymakers Should Think Twice Before Taxing GILTI

If Illinois’ budget is enacted as-is, Illinois will newly tax 50 percent of Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI) as of tax year 2025, retroactively increasing tax burdens for US businesses and further hindering Illinois’ business tax competitiveness.

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‘Trump Accounts’ Could Be Better. Here’s How.

If the federal government really wanted to make saving more accessible for taxpayers, it would swap the proposal for Trump Accounts to replace the complicated mess of savings accounts currently available with universal savings accounts.

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