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Wealth Tax Watch- A Mid-Year Update

2026 State Tax Ballot Measures to Watch

This fall, voters across the country will consider a host of ballot measures that could reshape the fairness and adequacy of their states’ tax systems. Here’s some of what we’re fo...

Flying Under the Tax Radar: How Profitable Airlines Avoided Federal Income Taxes in 2025

Corporate tax disclosures reveal that five profitable airlines paid almost nothing in federal income tax last year. In 2025, the effective federal income tax rates of these airline...

A Competitive Corporate Tax Code is Key to Sustaining Strong Economic Growth

The 12-year history of Tax Foundation’s ITCI shows that tax policy is constantly in flux around the world and that tax policy design choices matter for economic growth.

Treasury Flags Concern Over ‘Potentially Abusive’ Tax Trades

The Treasury Department is eyeing tax alpha strategies, which largely deploy financial engineering to exploit various rules in the U.S. tax code.

Bloomberg Tax: Weaker Minimum Book Tax Rules Save Meta, Qualcomm Billions

“It’s pretty clear these two things are potentially at odds,” said Matthew Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “The more Treasury tries to gut...

Windfall Profits Taxes in Europe, 2026

As energy prices have declined, European countries have switched the focus of their windfall profits taxes—a one-time tax levied on a company or industry when economic conditions r...

2025 State & Local Tax (SALT) Season Wrap-Up

Testimony: Legislative Proposal to Adapt the Income Tax Code to the Digital Economy Repeats the Economic and Legal Mista...

The Belgian proposal departs significantly from sound tax policy principles and risks generating substantial economic distortions, legal uncertainty, and trade frictions while rais...

Treasury flags concern over 'potentially abusive' tax trades

The U.S. Treasury Department has expressed concern over a number of high-profile tax strategies touted by Wall Street that it says may be "too good to be true."

Seabrooke & Stausholm: How TaxTech Rewires Global Wealth Chains

Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Bus. Sch.) & Saila Stausholm (Copenhagen Bus. Sch.), How TaxTech Rewires Global Wealth Chains, Fin. & Soc’y (forthcoming 2026): Technological...

Herzfeld: Mocking Up the Digital Services Tax War Games

Mindy Herzfeld (Florida), Mocking Up the Digital Services Tax War Games, 192 Tax Notes Fed. 185 (July 13, 2026) In the warning, which was issued the day after the European Commissi...

Six Companies Reaped $83 Billion in Federal Tax Breaks in 2025

Six companies alone accounted for $83 billion of federal tax breaks disclosed by publicly traded U.S companies so far for 2025. Microsoft received a record high for single-year fed...

Microsoft Reports a 2.44 Percent Federal Tax Rate on a Record $101 Billion in Profits

Microsoft avoided federal income tax on almost all of its U.S. income for fiscal year 2026. The company’s 2.44 percent federal tax rate on over $100 billion of U.S. income is large...

Diving into the Differences Between Tax Transparency Regimes

The new public country-by-country reporting regimes adopted by the EU and Australia, and changes from the Financial Accounting Standards Board for financial accounts, are meant to...

Tax Law Update: September 2026

The most notable tax law developments of the past month

Alstadsæter, Johannesen, Le Guern Herry & Zucman on Transparency and Offshore Wealth

Annette Alstadsæter, Niels Johannesen, Ségal Le Guern Herry & Gabriel Zucman, “Global Financial Transparency and Offshore Wealth Accumulation” (NBER Working Paper, July 2026):...

HOLY DEPRECIATION WRITEOFF | Microsoft pays only 2.4 percent federal tax rate on (record) $101 Billion in profits.

Microsoft’s latest annual financial report shows the company achieved record profitability while it avoided federal income tax on almost all of its U.S. income for fiscal year 2026...

New Legislation Would Require Big Multinationals to Tell Shareholders Where They’re Hiding Offshore Profits

Sen. Chris Van Hollen introduced legislation requiring big multinational corporations to tell shareholders and the public what they’re already telling tax authorities behind closed...

Transitioning Foreign Tax Allocations and Implementing the Ten Percent Credit Disallowance Under Section 960(d)(4)

Section 898(c) Transition Rule for Allocating Foreign Taxes and Section 960(d)(4) Foreign Tax Credit Disallowance, REG-115145-25, July 31, 2026 The Department of the Treasury...

Treasury Raises Concerns About Tax-Aware Investment Products

At a Wall Street Tax Association seminar on July 21, 2026, Treasury officials discussed various strategies involving regulated investment companies in which Treasury has taken an i...

New ITEP analysis: Six Companies Reaped Record-Setting $83 Billion in Federal Tax Breaks Last Year

Just six companies received $83 billion in federal income tax breaks in 2025, the latest evidence that corporate tax avoidance has been turbocharged by the 2025 Trump/GOP tax law....

Treasury flags concern over 'potentially abusive' tax trades

The department worries that some products, including Section 351 conversions and box spread ETFs, could be ripe for abuse. It is actively evaluating tools to address those concerns...

Tax Fraud Blotter: Keep on truckin'

Special Tax Shelter Strategy; ghost prepared; material falsehoods; and other highlights of recent tax cases.