Do We Want Special Interest Trade Protectionism in the Tax Code?

President Obama’s FY 2016 budget plan includes a proposal to deny the standard business cost deduction to U.S.-based, foreign-owned companies for reinsurance premiums they pay to foreign reinsurance affiliates. That same proposal is carried over, though never enacted, from President Obama’s budgets for several recent years.

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