Timely Topics
Timely Topics
St. Louis Fed
What Is the Optimal Corporate Income Tax Rate?
10 minutes Posted Apr 15, 2019 at 5:56 pm.
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The 2017 federal tax overhaul reduced the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. In this podcast, Economist Don Schlagenhauf discusses the paper he wrote with two co-authors, “Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment” and what their models say the optimal rate is.