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Perhaps the biggest tax windfall that corporations will get this year and next is from a proposed change in the long-standing rule on tax rebates for losses. What's more, companies that don't, or can't, use the losses for rebates now will be able to significantly lower their taxes for as long as 20 years, when they return to profitability...
Here's how it stands now: companies that lose money in any given year are entitled to a rebate on money they have paid in taxes for the prior two years. So if you made a million dollars for each of your past two years, and lost 2 million this year, your company would be allowed to get back all of the taxes paid for the past two years. This could result in huge corporate-tax rebates in 2008 and 2009. For instance, in 2008 there are projected to be 107 companies in the S&P 1500 that will lose...
...companies could soon be eligible for billions of dollars more. A bill was proposed in the House of Representatives in late November by Congressman Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, that would extend the tax-carryback rule to five years, which means companies could get their tax payments refunded all the way back to 2003. And the rule would be eligible for losses that occurred in 2008 or 2009. That means a company with a large enough loss, after the proposed rebate, could effectively not pay taxes for seven years. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, has proposed...
...these tax moves are being done to help address the liquidity issues of corporate America," says Willens. "The collateral effect is that they will reduce taxes...
...should expect climate change to progressively become the area to which government spending will be directed," says Christian Egenhofer, senior fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. He points to recent German government tax-incentive plans to spur consumption of cleaner cars and green appliances. And he says climate change could become a primary revenue source through emission permits. "If emissions rights are auctioned, governments will be able to collect at least €30 billion ($38.9 billion) annually from 2012 onwards," Egenhofer says. "By 2020, it could reach up to €90 billion ($116.8 billion) annually...