Archive for November, 2013

On the eve of the high-profile Twitter IPO last week, Senators Carl Levin (D – Michigan) and John McCain (R – Arizona) issued a joint statement calling for the elimination of the corporate tax deduction (“loophole”) for share-based compensation of employees at fair value. Invoking the federal deficit and the horror of the “sequester,” these gentlemen further stated that the “Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated that ending this tax break would raise $23 billion for the US Treasury.”

Now, we’re ...