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Corporate Stock Buyback Tax Quadrupled: New Rules for Executive Compensation.

This legislation significantly increases the tax corporations must pay when repurchasing their own stock (stock buybacks), raising the rate from 1% to 4%. The goal is to discourage companies from prioritizing buybacks and potentially encourage them to invest profits in operations, employee wages, or research. Furthermore, companies can no longer use stock issued to highly paid executives as a deduction to lower this tax liability.
Key points
The excise tax rate on corporate stock repurchases is quadrupled, increasing from 1% to 4%.
A new rule prevents companies from reducing the tax amount by issuing stock to their highest-paid employees (covered employees/executives).
These changes apply to stock repurchases and stock issued after the law's enactment date.
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Additional Information
Print number: 118_S_413
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Process start date: 2023-02-14