Nutter intends to start out slowly, first by eliminating the 0.15% tax on business revenue.
At the same time, there are strong hints of a rise in tax on business profits.
Both men are cutting corporate tax rates while raising the overall burden of tax on business.
Even investors who have come to accept moderate black empowerment as a fact of life see the process as a tax on business.
Giuliani recognizes that our tax on business profits is now the second highest in the developed world and that encouraging risk taking by reducing the capital gains tax burden will quicken innovation.
He proposes further tax increases on banks, oil and gas, and still other tax increases on business.
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Liam Fox has called on Chancellor George Osborne to ease the tax burden on business in next month's Budget.
Today, U.S. tax on most business income derived by foreign subsidiaries is not subject to current U.S. taxation.
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Much of the gain would come from a state sales tax on "business-to-business" purchases like legal, accounting, banking and printing costs.
Which is where loading the tax rises on business is so strange.
Consumer spending wasn't as robust in March, and the longer-term worry is that higher tax rates on business and investment income will dampen economic activity and funding for new enterprises.
One is an income tax surcharge on millionaire earners and another is a business tax on energy costs.
So of course the U.S. Senate is expected to vote next week on a plan to unleash a wave of new tax audits on American business.
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Because most American companies are set up as pass through organizations in which business income is taxed on the individual tax returns of the business owners, policy makers can reduce the tax burden on small businesses by cutting taxes on individuals.
As Boehner indicated, efforts to comply with laws are a huge hidden tax on every American business.
Even House Republican Eric Cantor recently tipped his hat to President Barack Obama when it comes to acknowledging the tax burden on small business.
Instead he continually proposes still further tax increases on American business.
He called on the U.S. government to spur more hiring with tax legislation focused on private business.
She also knows that personal expenses of the couple were paid by the business, deducted on the business' income tax return, and not reported as income to the couple on Forms W-2 or 1099.
You may be able to deduct business bad debts as an expense on your business tax return.
In 2009, Maryland-based financial consulting firm Quantria Strategies did a study on effective tax rates on companies for the Small Business Administration.
While the tax may be imposed on the business owners, in many cases the only source for payment of the tax would be to take funds from the business.
Instead, he continually barnstorms the country calling for still more tax increases on investors, business, and job creators.
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And that growth would get unleashed via tax policy, namely two big tax cuts, one on business and the other on personal income.
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Further, each domestic partner must pay self-employment tax on her half of business earnings, a situation from which a special provision protects opposite-sex couples.
There's new urgency to this mission, although a strategy shift to build on the tax business has been in the works for several years.
Senate Democrats, led by Daschle, refused to take up a House bill they believed relied too strongly on business tax cuts without doing enough for unemployed workers.
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Me.), an important moderate who is courted by Democrats for key votes, was particularly interested in reducing the S-corp self-employment tax impact on small-business job creators.
Some argue negatively that many business owners will be facing higher tax rates, especially those small business owners who claim business profits on their personal income tax.
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The Obama administration also saw the passage of the Small Business Job Act, which provided additional small business tax cuts, zero capital gain taxes on important small business investments held for five years or more, deduction for self-employed health insurance costs and increased access to lending for small business owners.
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