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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Tax Reform Law for Corporations & Other For-Profit Entities



With regard to the idea of taxing all income of individuals and for-profit entities based on a progressive tax rate, deductions, exemptions and credits must be addressed.

In order to reform tax law for both individuals and for-profit entities, Congress should adopt the proposal in the prior blog, entitled, “All Income of Individuals & For-Profit Entities Should be Taxed at Graduated Rates.”

In a Reform Tax Law for For-Profit Entities, I further propose that Congress should establish a graduated schedule for for-profit entities whether it be the same schedule as for individuals or another schedule.  That graduated tax rate schedule for for-profit entities should go into effect in three years from the date of enactment.

In a Reform Tax Law for For-Profit Entities, Congress should repeal effective in three years from the date of enactment all existing deductions, exemptions and credits.

In a Reform Tax Law for For-Profit Entities, Congress should then enact effective in three years from the date of enactment such deductions, exemptions and credits as Congress determines necessary. 

The new deductions, exemptions and credits in a Reform Tax Law for For-Profit Entities should expire automatically after ten years.

Thus the voting public would have an opportunity to see a blank slate and be able to evaluate the deductions, exemptions and credits that Congress passes.

After enacting a Reform Tax Law for For-Profit Entities, Congress should then enact a reform tax law for individuals in the same manner.

All Income of Individuals & For-Profit Entities Should be Taxed at Graduated Rates.


For individuals, all income wherever in the world it is earned whether it is wages or non-wage income should be taxed at the same progressive or graduated rates.

All income wherever in the world it is earned of all for-profit US entities, corporations, limited liability corporations and associations and estates, regardless of their mailing addresses, should be taxed at the same progressive or graduated rates. 

So income regardless of its source and regardless of where it is earned should be taxed at the same progressive or graduated rates.  Thus interest, dividends and capital gains should be taxed at the same progressive or graduated rates.

Hedge fund managers and billionaires and large corporations and small corporations should be subject to the principle that the more money you make, the more you pay in taxes.