Tax Policy
Carried Interest
First Quarter President’s Report
By: Steve Judge
The first quarter of 2015 saw an increase in partisanship and a focus on international issues, which made substantive legislation more difficult to achieve. We continue to…
Carried Interest
PEGCC President & CEO Discusses Tax Reform on Bloomberg TV
This week, PEGCC President and CEO Steve Judge discussed tax reform and other private equity issues on Bloomberg TV’s Market Makers with Erik Shatzker and Stephanie Ruhle.
Legislative Priorities
On Private Equity Taxation, Consider Side Effects
By David Robinson
Herald-Sun guest columnist
DURHAM – As we reach the last few days of the presidential election and the debates between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney reach a…
Legislative Priorities
New Academic Analysis Finds Double Taxation on Partnership Businesses Reverses Trend Toward Tax Neutrality
Postlewaite: “The logic for the [tax increase] proposal is undercut by the evolution of the tax law over the last 30 years, which has embraced single-level taxation as the standard for business tax…
Tax Policy
Tax Notes: “Raising Revenue Through Misguided Classification Reform”
Passthrough Proposal Would Reverse 30 Years of Tax Law
Tax law expert, Professor Philip Postlewaite of Northwestern University, argues that recent proposals to tax passthrough businesses as…
Legislative Priorities
PEGCC Response to William Cohan’s Bloomberg Column on Issue of Interest Deductibility
The Truth about Interest Deductibility
A Response to William Cohan’s Bloomberg Column
A January 23, 2012 column authored by William Cohan (“Private Equity’s Public Subsidy Is a Tragedy”)…
Tax Policy
PEGCC CEO: Enterprise Value Tax “Violates Basic Tax Fairness Policy”
Obama’s proposed enterprise value tax has managers worried
By Hazel Bradford
Pensions & Investments
November 14, 2011
Executives in investment management partnerships such as private equity,…
Tax Policy
NYSE CEO: Enterprise Value tax hike “poses a threat to our still recovering financial system”
NYSE CEO Takes on Obama’s Jobs Bill
By Andrew Joseph
National Journal’s Influence Alley
October 21, 2011 | 9:00 AM |
All those protestors in Zuccotti Park haven’t stopped the CEO of NYSE…
Tax Policy
Statement on proposal to raise taxes on growth investments
WASHINGTON, DC, MAY 20, 2010 – The Private Equity Council issued the following statement on provisions of the so-called “tax extenders” bill filed today in the House of Representatives that…