Biden corporate tax hike would cut 159K jobs and lower wages: Tax Foundation

Published February 24, 2021 12:00am ET



President Biden's plan to increase the corporate tax rate would weaken economic recovery and hurt competitiveness, according to a report from the Tax Foundation.

Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden said that he planned to increase the corporate tax rate to 28%, a sharp rise from the current 21% set by former President Donald Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act but still well below the pre-2017 corporate rate of 35%.

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