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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Their Haste to Pass the Tax Heist the Senate made a $289 Billion Goof
" It appears that Senate Republicans managed to make a $289 billion or so mistake while furiously hand-scribbling edits onto the tax bill they passed in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The problem involves the corporate alternative minimum tax, which the GOP initially planned to repeal, but tossed back into their stew at the last second in order to raise some desperately needed revenue. The AMT is basically a parallel tax code meant to prevent companies from zeroing out their IRS bills. It doesnt allow businesses to take as many tax breaks but, in theory, is also supposed to have a lower rate.
Except not under the Senate bill. When Mitch McConnell & co. revived the AMT, they absentmindedly left it at its current rate of 20 percent, the same as the new, lower rate of the corporate income tax that the bill included. As a result, many companies wont be able to use tax breaks that were supposed to be preserved in the legislation, including the extremely popular credit for research and development costs. Corporate accountants started freaking out about this over the weekend, but the situation reached high farce when a group of lawyers from Davis Polk pointed out that, by leaving the AMT intact, Republicans had essentially undermined their bills most important changes to the international tax code. ..."
https://slate.com/business/2017/12/senate-republicans-may-have-made-a-usd260-billion-mistake-in-their-tax-bill.html
Do you want it fast or do you want it good? With these asshats I think we know the answer to that.
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In Their Haste to Pass the Tax Heist the Senate made a $289 Billion Goof (Original Post)
Norbert
Dec 2017
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Norbert
(6,041 posts)1. Citigroup will take a $20B hit if senate bill is signed
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)2. I got 3 words: REPEAL AND REPLACE
Amishman
(5,559 posts)3. They'll change that during version reconciliation
Since the AMT is one of the bill differences anyway.
They could afford to be careless as they knew they could change it later.
If the Pubs were that stupid, they wouldn't be able to fuck people over so effectively