ENTERPRISE CONSUMPTION TAX (ECT)

In what, to some, may be the boldest aspect of the Fair 55 Tax Reform Plan©, it is proposed that, in an orderly and fiscally responsible manner, both the current Personal Income Tax (PIT) on individuals’ currently earned income, and the Corporation Net Income Tax (CNIT) on C corporations’ profits, would be repealed and replaced by the addition-method Enterprise Consumption Tax (ECT), imposed at the illustrated rate of 5.5%. The proposal does provide for the temporary imposition of a limited Deferred and Passive Income Tax (DPIT), to be applied only to non-social security/non-public employee retirement benefits such as deferred income, interest and dividends, received by higher-income individuals, but at the flat rate of 3%, which is the rate for the lowest bracket of the current state personal income tax. Read More