President Joe Biden's proposal to raise the corporate tax rate may be primarily aimed at large corporations, but not all small businesses will escape the rate hikes if the plan is approved.
While the majority of the more than 30 million small businesses in the U.S. are pass-through entities in which tax obligations are passed to the owners, 1.4 million of them are organized as C corporations and are subject to the corporate tax, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
In the insurance and finance sectors, there were 80,000 small-business C-corps with more than 705,000 employees in 2017, the Chamber reports, citing Census data.
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