
Briefing Memo: The Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) Deduction: Why It Belongs on the Chopping Block
Eliminating the Foreign-Derived Intangible Income (FDII) tax break would both raise significant revenue and make for good policy.
There is widespread agreement, across the political spectrum, that the gaming of the tax code by multinational corporations is a problem. When profits and jobs are shipped offshore, we not only harm the U.S. economy, we fuel a tax haven industry that drains wealth around the world. We seek to fix the problem of large, well-connected interests gaming the tax system.
Eliminating the Foreign-Derived Intangible Income (FDII) tax break would both raise significant revenue and make for good policy.
A major concern against Biden’s Made in America Tax Plan is that it could harm US competitiveness, however opponents overlook the existence of two different kinds of competitiveness–that of US multinational corporations and that of the US and its workers.
After months of anticipation, Rep. Cynthia Axne (D-IA) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) unveiled the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act last week to a chorus of civil society, small business, and investor support.
Today is May 17, which due to an IRS extension is this year’s tax day. The annual deadline comes as a reminder that–while most of us scramble to pay what we owe–some of the wealthiest among us pay little to nothing in taxes.
FACT sends comments to Congress in response to the Senate Finance Committee’s proposed international tax recommendations.
Fast on the heels of the Leaders’ Summit on Climate hosted by the United States last week, the Biden administration will start working in earnest to advance its American Jobs Plan in Congress. Infrastructure investments aimed at combating climate change are at the center of the plan designed to spur emissions-reducing actions, generate economic growth and create jobs.