Ideally, Congress would get rid of business-entertainment deductions altogether — after all, they are little more than an excuse for corporate executives to consume luxury items at a discount, distorting markets and cheating the public out of substantial tax revenue.
Or maybe the deduction should go altogether.
The most hotly debated of the Republicans' specific proposals would repeal the corporate alternative minimum tax, which was created to insure that companies did not avoid income taxes altogether through deductions.
Capping these deductions, or getting rid of some altogether, would be a far better way to pay for AMT repeal.Good in only one partMr Rangel's timidity is all the more disappointing because he does propose just such a base-broadening reform to America's corporate income tax.
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And while the inexactitude of intuition simply means it cannot be relied upon alone as a source of reaching any conclusion, this means that all initial suppositions, theories, and hunches must be tested by logic and analysis of facts, not that it must be removed altogether from our processes of deduction.
Business taxes are simplified and lowered.The biggest single change would be the elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax, a parallel version of the income tax that was introduced in 1969 to ensure that rich Americans could not avoid paying tax altogether by taking too many deductions.
He has yet to provide details of how he now proposes to lower rates but has called for speeding up the delivery of rebate checks, and for making the rebate a tax deduction, effectively doing away with the rebate process altogether.
The tax reprieve postpones for one year only an expansion of the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax system enacted in 1969 to prevent very wealthy investors from using deductions and tax shelters to avoid paying income tax altogether.
