Wall Street, GOP Team Up on Tax Bill

Proposal would raise tax rate for private-equity profits from 15% to 35%
By Max Brallier,  Newser User
Posted Jun 28, 2007 8:52 AM CDT
Wall Street, GOP Team Up on Tax Bill
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Wall Street stormed Washington yesterday, as more than 70 lobbyists for financial firms met with GOP lawmakers to organize opposition to a bill that would raise the tax rate on private-equity partners. The proposal would require managers at private partnerships to pay the normal income tax rate of up to $35% on their cut of profits, rather than the 15% rate they now enjoy.

Opponents of the bill, including Henry Paulson, the treasury secretary, criticize it for singling out one industry. Supporters, including most Democrats in Congress, say it rectifies special tax treatment that has made private equity principals vastly wealthy. The New York Times reports that a unified front against the bill may be hard to achieve because many Wall Street firms aren't affected by it.  (More Wall Street stories.)

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