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Business Taxes: TaxVox
Corporate tax revenues boomed in 2021 and some supporters of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act argue that the big tax reductions in the...
June 3, 2022William G. GaleKyle PomerleauSteven M. Rosenthal
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
In last night’s State of the Union address , President Trump declared, “Our economy is the best it has ever been.” And, he added, “If...
February 5, 2020Howard GleckmanAravind Boddupalli
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The economic benefits of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) seem to have petered out. The US economy grew robustly in late 2017, perhaps...
August 1, 2019Howard GleckmanAravind Boddupalli
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The beginning of the US economy’s second year under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was largely positive, though some troubling signs lurked just beneath...
May 7, 2019Howard GleckmanAravind Boddupalli
: TaxVox
In Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital , Kimberly Clausing has written a comprehensive and accessible analysis of three of...
February 27, 2019Leonard E. Burman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Tax Vox is continuing to track a set of economic indicators to see whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has, in President Trump’s words,...
July 31, 2018Howard GleckmanAravind Boddupalli
Business Taxes: TaxVox
But after the TCJA's bonus buzz fades, what will companies do with their extra money? Will they use it to make more capital investments in the US to boost productivity, and eventually, workers’ wages?
February 7, 2018Renu Zaretsky
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The 2-percentage-point payroll tax cut extended by Congress in December and again last week will save workers a total of $114 billion this year, according...
February 20, 2012Roberton C. Williams