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> Also, eliminating the corporate income tax would open up a gigantic loophole in tax law. People could simply incorporate into a single person corporation, the
by bpodgursky 11y ago
> Also, eliminating the corporate income tax would open up a gigantic loophole in tax law. People could simply incorporate into a single person corporation, then make sure the corporation makes all of their money and just happens to provide services that help the person (like buying food and shelter).
Given that corporate income tax is basically completely ineffective right now, I don't know why you think this would possibly be any harder to enforce against.
> If anything we should be taxing those war chests higher because sequestering that much money is bad for the economy as a whole.
If you eliminated the corporate income tax, this money would instantly be some combination of (a) disbursed in dividends (b) brought back into the US and spent on expansions or acquisitions or (c) spent on stock buybacks, which would then be captured as capital gains tax. There's no need to make this more complicated.
- abawany 11y agoThank you - that was sort of the source of my question as well. It seems that since the current complicated scheme has perversed incentives to make the corporate tax ineffectual, why not try to simplify.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoI think (a) and (b) only lead to taxes if the stock holders are American. I have a lot of non resident alien friends who hold the same stock as I do and their tax rules for dividends and capital gains are very different, it isn't clear to me that they have to pay anything. Much of corporate war chests are spent on R&D abroad, which is necessary to garner favor in some countries. The money wouldn't necessarily flow back to the US even if it could unhindered.