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ACT Statement on President Obama's State of the Union Address

Washington, D.C.¬†Today, the Alliance for Competitive Taxation (ACT) issued the following statement regarding President Obama's annual State of the Union address: "We agree with President Obama that the U.S. needs tax reform that will make the U.S. more competitive, grow the U.S. economy and boost w…

A Band-Aid Approach Will Never Fix the U.S. Tax Code

By ACT Staff The U.S. tax system, both domestic and international, is one big, anti-competitive mess. Economists, policymakers and pundits, and editorial boards across the country agree that our corporate tax system is in desperate need of reform. Companies in the U.S. are subject to the highest cor…

ACT Responds to Treasury Announcement

Today, the Alliance for Competitive Taxation (ACT) released the following statement in response to the Treasury Department's announcement regarding inversions: ‚ÄúThe U.S. tax code is broken and outdated and makes it harder for American workers and businesses to compete in the global marketplace. Ot…

ACT Releases Report on Recent U.S. Corporate Redomiciliations and the Growing Need for Tax Reform

By ACT Staff ACT has released a new report in response to the recent trend of U.S. companies pursuing redomiciliation through mergers with overseas companies. The report describes the recent trend of corporate inversions through mergers, the parts of the U.S. tax code that are encouraging these merg…

ACT Responds to Introduction of Anti-Inversion Legislation

WASHINGTON Today, the Alliance for Competitive Taxation (ACT) released the following statement in response to legislation introduced by Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) and Rep. Sander Levin (D., Mich.): "The fact that we've seen a growing number of American companies in recent months announce plans to m…

Calls for Tax Reform Continue to Mount

By ACT Staff On the heels of last week's calls for tax reform, opinion leaders and editorial boards across the country have continued to urge Washington to reform our outdated, anticompetitive tax code. Washington Post Editorial Board: ‚ÄúWhat's needed is a system for a world in which other countrie…

New Polling Demonstrates Broad Support for Tax Reform

By ACT Staff A new poll from the RATE Coalition shows that Americans are fed up with our outdated, anticompetitive tax code. Broad majorities support a bipartisan effort to modernize and reform our tax system to encourage American businesses to grow, invest, and locate here in the United States. RAT…

Myth Buster: EPI's "Simple Fix" Ignores the Need for American Companies to be Globally Competitive

ACT Supports Tax Reform to Modernize U.S. International Tax Rules By ACT Staff There is one thing ACT and the Economic Policy Institute agree on: our international tax system is broken and it's time to update the rules. But while EPI argues that the United States should repeal deferral on the foreig…

ACT Company Spotlight: Tax Reform Would Help Companies to Better Compete in Global Markets, Fostering Growth in the U.S.

Companies headquartered here in the U.S. are subject to a tax code that makes it harder for them to compete in markets overseas and grow here in the U.S. With the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world and an anti-competitive ‚Äúworldwide‚Äù system of international taxation, American busi…

ACT Announces Campaign to Showcase the Need for Tax Reform around Tax Day

WASHINGTON This week, the Alliance for Competitive Taxation will deploy a week-long campaign to highlight the need to reform our nation's outdated tax code around Tax Day. The effort is aimed at bringing attention to the complexities and inefficiencies that plague our tax code and that stand in the …

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