Taxes

How High are Income Tax Rates in Your State?

The Tax Foundation has released its annual review of income tax rates among the states. There were some big changes in a few states,...

Surprising Progress made in the Fight for Tax Reform

Here's some pro-growth tax reform that businesses can work with. The Tax Foundation has identified America's best tax reformers of 2015 and honored them...

Debt Disaster: It’s Different this Time

The only way to get out of a debt disaster without making hard choices about spending cuts or raising extra revenue via taxes, is...

Corporate Tax Migration No Surprise

You get a real clear picture looking at this map (from the Tax Foundation) on corporate income tax rates by state as to why so...

Johnson Controls, Latest Corporate Inversion Refugee

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize our treasonous corporate tax rate is bad for business. The latest hit comes from Johnson Controls’...

Does Your State have Creeping Tax Brackets?

If your state isn't indexing its tax brackets to inflation, you could find yourself paying a higher rate even though you're not any higher...

Goodbye Connecticut

Over the weekend a client emailed me an article about Connecticut’s Borgeson Universal Co. It produces steering components and has operated in Torrington, Connecticut since...

What We’re Reading 11-23-2015

Elizabeth Warren's Tax Warning - WSJ Argentina Shifts Right - The Guardian Why Housing Hasn't Lifted the Economy Much - WSJ Reining in a Sprawling Federal Reserve...

These are America’s Most Competitive States

The Tax Foundation has released its 2016 State Business Tax Climate Index. Here are the 10 best and the 10 worst states according to...

How High are Your State’s Corporate Income Taxes?

Do you live in a bustling corporate tax paradise like Texas? Or are enduring a confiscatory nightmare like the small business owners of Washington D.C.? This...