Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenBad Job Report Boosts GOP Screams to Boost 0 Perks. Privacy Price Increase: Ending Police Data Purchases Overnight Health Care: Biden Sets Target Of At least One Shot To 70 Percent Of Adults | By July 4th White House To Postpone As It Distributes MORE Unassigned Vaccines To States (D-Ore.) Said in an interview with The Hill on Tuesday that he considered it a “big mistake” to pay for an infrastructure package by increasing gas tax rather than increasing corporate taxes.
“It just seems like a big mistake going there as a company [tax] Sales have dropped about 40 percent in the past few years, ”said Wyden.
Wyden’s comments come as Congress and the White House debate the size and scope of infrastructure legislation, as well as the payment for such a measure. As chairman of the tax committee, Wyden will play a key role in shaping the funding portion of an infrastructure package.
President Biden
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Some groups of companies, such as the US Chamber of Commerce, have expressed an interest in increasing the federal gas tax. The Problem Solvers Caucus, a non-partisan group of centrist lawmakers, has also circulated the gas tax hike as a possible payment method for an infrastructure bill.
However, many key Democrats criticized the federal gas tax hike, which has not been hiked since the Clinton administration, as such a tax hike would have an impact on middle-class households. Biden has pledged not to collect taxes on individuals and households who earn less than $ 400,000 per year.
Wyden is among a growing number of Democrats who have raised concerns about the gas tax hike. The Biden government has criticized the idea, as have members of the democratic caucus across the ideological spectrum that extends from the centrist senator. Joe Manchin
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Wyden said he doesn’t think it makes sense to raise taxes for the middle class when large corporations are taking advantage of U.S. infrastructure and receiving significant tax cuts under the 2017 law.
“The biggest of the big mega-corporations use the infrastructure, the roads and bridges,” he said.
Wyden referred to analyzes that found a decline in corporate tax revenues and effective corporate tax rates after the 2017 Tax Reduction Act came into force.
He cited research by his committee analyzing data from the Congressional Budget Office, which found that after the Republican Tax Cut Act went into effect, corporate tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product fell by nearly 40 percent compared to the 2000-2016 average. He also cited a report by the Joint Committee on Taxation, the impartial tax scorekeeper of Congress, which was released earlier this year and found that the average tax rate paid by U.S. multinational corporations rose about 50 percent from 2017 to 2018, the first year of the GOP The tax law was in force.
The disagreement between Democrats and Republicans over paying an infrastructure bill reduces the likelihood that a bipartisan bill will be passed. But even if Democrats try to pass an infrastructure bill without Republican support, they face the challenge of reaching consensus on a package. For example, Manchin has said he does not support raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent and would prefer a tax rate of 25 percent.
When asked if he could bridge the gap between the democratic legislators, Wyden referred to the international tax framework he had published last month with both centrist seniors. Mark Warner
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Wyden said that, as chairman of the finance committee, he will be ready with “proposals to raise the revenue that the Senate Democratic caucus deems necessary,” and that he hopes to gain Republican support as well.