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An Analysis of Former Vice President Biden’s Tax Proposals

Gordon B. Mermin, Surachai Khitatrakun, Chenxi Lu, Thornton Matheson, Jeffrey Rohaly
March 5, 2020
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Abstract

In this brief, we estimate the revenue and distributional effects of former vice president Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign tax proposals, based on information released by the Biden campaign and conversations with campaign staff. We analyze Biden’s proposals as of February 23, 2020.

Biden would increase income and payroll taxes on high-income individuals and increase income taxes on corporations. He would increase federal revenues by $4.0 trillion over the next decade. Under his plan, the highest-income households would see substantially larger tax increases than households in other income groups, both in dollar amounts and as share of their incomes.

Biden’s spending proposals would also have important distributional and economic effects, but we do not estimate the distributional effects of those initiatives.

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  • Jeffrey Rohaly
    Principal Research Associate
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