America has lost 1 million corporations since their height during the Reagan era, in part driven out of business by the industrialized world’s highest corporate tax rate, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.
The just-issued research revealed that the number of traditional “C” corporations has fall to a “historically low level” and wiped out the corporate tax base, resulting in the federal government relying much more on individual income taxes to fund its operation.
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“There is now more net business income taxed under the individual income tax system than the traditional corporate tax code, a trend that does not appear to be stopping any time soon,” said the report provided to Secrets.
It said that corporate closings have recently picked up steam and now 60,000 a year are shut down.
A driver in the loss of traditional corporations has been the ever-rising corporate tax rate, an issue Washington has been ducking for years.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/60000-corporations-closed-every-year-taxes-blamed/article/2558317
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