Biden: “I Would Raise the Corporate Tax Rate” to 28 Percent

Biden tax hike would result in a combined federal-state corporate tax rate of 34%

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Tuesday in Sioux City, Iowa that if elected, he would raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent.

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Biden said:

“I would raise the corporate tax. I think we should have lowered it from 36 to 28 percent, but it got lowered to 20 percent. If we just raised it back to 28 percent, we would raise about 600 billion dollars a year. Look at all of the needs we have and the opportunities we have. Ladies and gentlemen, it begins by reversing those cuts.”

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanently cut the corporate rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. Biden is incorrect when he says it was lowered to 20 percent.

State corporate taxes average 6 percent across the U.S., so this Biden tax hike would give the U.S. a combined average corporate rate of 34 percent.

The Biden 34 percent combined federal-state corporate rate would give the U.S. a much higher rate than the United Kingdom (19 percent), China (25 percent), Canada (26.8 percent), and Ireland (12.5 percent). It would impose a tax rate higher than the current combined corporate rate across the 36 member Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), which is currently 23.7 percent.

An increase in the corporate tax rate would also directly raise the cost of utility bills in all 50 states.

Biden has also repeatedly threatened a full repeal of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

“First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts,” said Biden during a campaign stop in Columbia, South Carolina on May 4.

Biden also continues to lie about the tax cuts. The Washington Post gave Biden four pinocchios when he said: “All of it went to folks at the top and corporations.” In its fact check, the Washington Post stated: “Most Americans received a tax cut.”

Even left-leaning and establishment media outlets confirm the good news arising from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act:

The New York Times also flatly stated: “Most people got a tax cut.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper did his own fact check and concluded: “The facts are, most Americans got a tax cut.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper also stated: “In fact, estimates from both sides of the political spectrum show that the majority of people in the United States of America did receive a tax cut.”
FactCheck.org stated: “Most people got some kind of tax cut in 2018 as a result of the law.”
FactCheck.org also stated: “The vast majority (82 percent) of middle-income earners — those with income between about $49,000 and $86,000 — received a tax cut that averaged about $1,050.
The NYT also stated: “To a large degree, the gap between perception and reality on the tax cuts appears to flow from a sustained — and misleading — effort by liberal opponents of the law to brand it as a broad middle-class tax increase.”