by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
In the finale of my three-part series on lower corporate tax rates (here, here, and here), I shared this old video of me arguing for a lower corporate tax rate. But a lower corporate tax rate is just part of what’s needed, which is why I’ve also explained other topics...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
When writing about corporate taxes and the Laffer Curve, I almost always will share these two charts from left-leaning, pro-tax international bureaucracies. This first chart is from the International Monetary Fund and it shows that corporate tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 16, 2026 | Blogs, Taxation
People sometimes will get excited about big-picture tax fights – whether politicians should raise taxes, whether they should add a VAT, or whether they should scrap the IRS for a flat tax. On the other had, there are a handful of tax issues that induce...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 17, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
More than 15 years ago, I shared a 2007 video about the corporate income tax. One of my first points in that nine-minute video was that businesses pay the tax, but people bear the burden. I elaborate in this much-shorter clip from a recent...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
As part of her tax-and-spend agenda, Kamala Harris says she wants to increase the federal corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent. While it doesn’t seem possible, there is a tiny sliver of good news in her proposal. I’m happy that she isn’t proposing to...
