Kimberly A. Clausing

On June 13, 2022, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution hosted a webcast exploring significant changes to the taxing of international corporate income. The webcast will feature National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and Wendy Edelberg of The Hamilton Project.

Taxation is an enduring focus of economic policy debates. This book presents a series of policy options, authored by leading tax experts and backed by rigorous analysis, to increase federal revenue in ways that are both efficient and equitable. The policies include better tax enforcement, improved, corporate taxation, increased taxation of wealth, and taxes on some transactions. 

A proposal by Kimberly Clausing offers near-term and fundamental reforms to improve the taxation of multinational companies. Formulary apportionment would raise substantial new revenue without harming U.S. competitiveness.  

A two-part forum and release of a new set of policy proposals that address the challenges of reforming the U.S. tax system.

This paper argues that the current system of taxing multinational firms generates tax distortions. It proposes a new system that would protect the U.S. tax base while alleviating problems created by the current system.