Corporate Taxes: We're No. 1 ... but that's not good news
Kevin A. Hassett, Aparna Mathur, Alan D. Viard, Alex Brill
March 30, 2012

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It’s not a joke. This Sunday, April 1st  the United States will become the developed country with the highest statutory corporate tax rate.  Japan, the previous ‘champion,’ is set to lower their rates leaving America in the top spot.

The following American Enterprise Institute (AEI) tax experts have written on the economic impact of high corporate taxation and are available to comment:

  • Kevin Hassett is AEI’s director of economic policy studies and is a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve and has served as a policy consultant to the Treasury Department and adviser to the presidential campaigns of John McCain (2000, 2008) and George W. Bush (2004). With Aparna Mathur, he previously wrote a report card on the US place in effective and statutory corporate tax rankings—even before this recent development, the United States got an ‘F.’ Hassett is available for interviews and can be reached at khassett@aei.org or though Veronika.Polakova@aei.org
  • Aparna Mathur is an economist who researches taxes and wages and has served as a consultant to the World Bank. In a recent piece on American.com, AEI’s online journal, she explained that higher corporate taxes hurt middle class workers by depressing wages and reducing job opportunities. Mathur is available for interviews and can be reached at amathur@aei.org.
  • Alex Brill is an AEI economist who previously served as the policy director and top economist for the House Ways and Means Committee, and on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author of a pro-growth, progressive, and practical corporate tax reform plan. Brill is available for interviews and can be reached at alex.brill@aei.org.
  • Alan Viard is an AEI economist and a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas who has worked for the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, and the Joint Committee on Taxation. In a piece for the Blue Dog Research Forum, he explained how the current US system for international taxation American companies to ship jobs overseas. Viard is available for interviews and can be reached at aviard@aei.org.

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Kevin A.
Hassett
  • Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University, as well as a policy consultant to the Treasury Department during the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations. He served as an economic adviser to the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign, chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain during the 2000 presidential primaries, senior economic adviser to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign, and economic adviser to the Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign.   Mr. Hassett is a columnist for National Review.

  • Phone: 202-862-7157
    Email: khassett@aei.org

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    Name: Emma Bennett
    Phone: 202-862-5862
    Email: emma.bennett@aei.org
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Aparna
Mathur
  • Aparna Mathur is an economist who writes about taxes and wages. She has been a consultant to the World Bank and has taught economics at the University of Maryland. Her work ranges from research on carbon taxes and the impact of state health insurance mandates on small firms to labor market outcomes. Her research on corporate taxation includes the widely discussed coauthored 2006 "Wages and Taxes" paper, which explored the link between corporate taxes and manufacturing wages.
  • Phone: 202-828-6026
    Email: amathur@aei.org

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    Name: Daniel Hanson
    Phone: 202-862-5883
    Email: daniel.hanson@aei.org
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Alan D.
Viard
  • Alan Viard was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and an assistant professor of economics at Ohio State University prior to joining AEI. He has also worked for the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Tax Analysis, the White House's Council of Economic Advisers and the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress. Viard is a frequent contributor to AEI's On the Margin column in Tax Notes. In January 2010, he was named by Tax Notes as a nominee for 2009 Tax Person of the Year. Viard is also the co-author of Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X Tax Revisited published in May 2012.
  • Phone: 202-419-5202
    Email: aviard@aei.org

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    Name: Veronika Polakova
    Phone: 202-862-4880
    Email: veronika.polakova@aei.org
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Alex
Brill
  • Alex Brill, a former policy director and chief economist of the House Ways and Means Committee, also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). In Congress and at the CEA, Mr. Brill worked on a variety of economic and legislative policy issues, including dividend taxation, the alternative minimum tax, international tax policy, social security reform, defined benefit pension reform, and U.S. trade policy.

    At AEI, Mr. Brill studies the impact of tax policy in the U.S. economy; the fiscal, economic, and political consequences of stimulus legislation; health care reform, pharmaceutical spending, unemployment insurance reform; and financial innovation and technology.
  • Phone: 202-862-5931
    Email: alex.brill@aei.org

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    Name: Veronika Polakova
    Phone: 202-862-4880
    Email: veronika.polakova@aei.org
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