Obama’s Purposed Tax Reform May Have Holes

Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, has presented Obama’s current plan for overhauling business taxes today. This plan includes eliminating loopholes and a reduction in tax rates by up to 28%. Critics, however, state this is not low enough.

Plans are also in the works to instate a minimum tax on foreign earnings, but no details have yet been given.

Geithner went on to say that the main goal of the Obama tax reform plan is to “restore a system” which allows American businesses to succeed or fail based on the services they provide or products they make, not on … Read the rest