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  • Modernize corporate taxation to increase growth, competitiveness

    Posted: March 22, 2012 in Blogs

    The prospects for corporate tax reform proved the main topic this morning when BRT President John Engler participated in the Monitor Breakfast, a reporter roundtable sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor.

  • Britain to lower corporate tax rate, proving BRT’s point

    Posted: March 21, 2012 in Blogs

    In his budget speech today, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced an expedited reduction of the country's corporate tax rate to 24 percent as of April 1. The rationale? To improve Britain's global competitiveness.

  • Letter on Senate Export-Import Bank Amendment

    Posted: March 20, 2012 in Hearings & Letters

    Failure by Congress to reauthorize Ex-Im soon on a longer-term basis with a sufficient increase in its lending cap would handicap the ability of U.S. exporters to compete for sales abroad and support the U.S. jobs that depend on those sales.

  • With U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Soon to be World’s Highest, BRT Intensifies Push for Comprehensive Business Tax Reform

    Posted: March 20, 2012 in News & Press Releases

    Business Roundtable (BRT) today announced an aggressive two-week push to highlight the importance of business tax reform in advance of April 1, the day Japan will officially lower its statutory corporate tax rate and the United States becomes the country with the highest and most anticompetitive corporate tax rate in the developed world. BRT’s two-week campaign will consist of meetings with key Members of Congress, advertisements in Washington, D.C. publications, outreach to media and editorial boards, and a multifaceted social media push that will include new Tax Foundation videos and other tactics.

  • We’re (going to be) No. 1! Alas

    Posted: March 16, 2012 in Blogs

    Warranting attention is today's lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal, "The U.S. Is Number One: On April 1, Japan cedes the highest corporate tax rate to America."

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