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  • Business Roundtable Chairman Stresses Importance of Successful Work by Deficit Reduction Committee

    Posted: September 22, 2011 in News & Press Releases

    “Continued high unemployment, lagging economic growth and the lack of consumer confidence have made it imperative that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction complete its mission,” said W. James McNerney, Jr., Chairman of Business Roundtable (BRT) and Chairman, President and CEO of The Boeing Company.

  • Business Roundtable Reacts to President’s Proposals on Taxes, Deficit Reduction

    Posted: September 19, 2011 in News & Press Releases

    “In December 2010, major American employers united around ‘A Roadmap for Growth.’ In September 2011, we still believe that growth is of paramount importance,” said John Engler, president of Business Roundtable, today in reaction to President Obama’s recommendations to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

  • Corporate taxation, permanence v. uncertainty

    Posted: September 16, 2011 in Blogs

    Our favorite exchange in Tuesday's Senate Finance subcommittee on corporate taxation came when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) posed a question about the economic importance of certainty to Business Roundtable's president, John Engler.

  • BRT and PACE Letter to Congress on the "Ways and Means Staff Options to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction"

    Posted: September 15, 2011 in Hearings & Letters

    The PACE Coalition strongly urges you to oppose any efforts at piecemeal "reforms" to our international tax system that make U.S. companies and American workers less competitive globally as part of any legislation considered by the Joint Select Committee.

  • On corporate tax rates, a telling chart

    Posted: September 15, 2011 in Blogs

    The U.S. system of corporate taxation is becoming less and less globally competitive, Business Roundtable President John Engler testified Tuesday at the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth's hearing, "Examining Whether There is a Role for Tax Reform in Comprehensive Deficit Reduction and U.S. Fiscal Policy."

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