Tax

Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch is downplaying the prospect that the White House and congressional Republican leaders will be able to deliver a unified framework for tax legislation next week, as other officials have promised.

The European Commission will outline on Thursday different options for taxing digital companies as the 28-nation bloc seeks to raise money from an industry that it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

A group of U.S. business executives called for Congress to cut the corporate tax rate as low as possible and end the current global approach in which companies’ profits are taxed no matter where they’re earned.

Senators Bob Corker and Pat Toomey, two Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee, said they have agreed to a tentative deal to craft a budget that would allow “headroom” for a significant tax cut, though they didn’t specify the size of the reduction.

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The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday to discuss reforming the business tax code and heard from a group of panelists, including a representative of the American Institute of CPAs.

Proposals in Washington could seriously disadvantage one of the most common forms of business.

The U.S. lost $510 billion in business assets that were acquired by foreign companies from 2004 to 2016 in part because its corporate income tax rate exceeds other countries’, according to a study released Tuesday by a group of top U.S. business leaders.

Senate Budget Committee member Ron Johnson said the panel is considering a budget that would allow for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts that would add to the deficit on a so-called “static” basis over the next 10 years.