Obama’s Proposal to Double-Tax Profits Will Kill U.S. Jobs
Add comment May 4th, 2009
The U.S. should tax our companies the way the rest of the world taxes theirs–territoriality. The rest of the developed world has figured this out: if they want to retain jobs and capital in their countries, they have to adopt territoriality. This means that companies only pay corporate income tax in the country where the profit is earned. The U.S. partially tried this in 2005, when companies were allowed to repatriate deferred foreign earnings at a 5.25% rate—far lower than what they would have to pay otherwise. The result was a one-year infusion of $318 billion in capital to the United States, resulting in $17 billion in additional corporate income tax payments, and the creation of thousands of new jobs.
The U.S. needs to lower our corporate income tax rate to become more competitive.Â
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