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Federal Budget and Economy

Does the Conventional Wisdom About Productivity Need to be Reconsidered?

Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. productivity growth, the weakest it has been in more than a quarter-century, is the reason for today’s subpar GDP growth and low wages. But is the conventional wisdom correct? Rudolph G. Penner comments in this article which was originally published by ...

January 22, 2018
Rudolph G. Penner
Brief
Business Taxes

Territorial Taxation: Choosing Among Imperfect Options

Both territorial and worldwide systems for taxing income of multinational companies are difficult to implement because the concepts of income source and corporate residence on which the systems are based have become less economically meaningful. Recent legislation enacted by the House and Senate...

December 12, 2017
Eric Toder
Research report
State and Local Issues

Prepping for the 2018 Legislative Session

To help analysts craft next year’s state budgets, and to help reporters explain them and the public understand them, we compiled the Urban Institute’s and the Tax Policy Center’s best state-focused research in one place. The research in this compendium will help analysts better evaluate agency...

October 3, 2017
Richard C. AuxierErin Huffer
Research report
Federal Budget and Economy

A Methodology for Integrated Distributional Analysis of Taxes and Transfers

Distributional analyses play a prominent role in policy discussions. Both tax and transfer policy have important distributional consequences, but traditionally they have been examined separately. This report describes a new methodology for integrated distributional analysis that imports results...

September 29, 2017
Gordon B. MerminFrank SammartinoMatthew BuettgensMelissa M. FavreaultElaine Maag
Research report
Federal Budget and Economy

Estimates of a Proposal to Establish Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, Financed by Reduced Limits on Current Law Contributions to Defined Contribution Retirement Saving Plans

The Tax Policy Center (TPC) prepared revenue and distributional estimates of a proposal to replace the current tax benefits for defined contribution (DC) qualified retirement plans with a new Guaranteed Retirement Account (GRA). TPC estimates that the proposal would reduce federal income and...

August 23, 2017
Eric ToderSurachai Khitatrakun
Research report
Federal Budget and Economy

The Fiscal Outlook in a Period of Policy Uncertainty

While policy makers and news headlines focus on debates about health care and tax policy, the U.S. fiscal outlook remains troubling and is a constraint against which new proposals should be judged. Budget deficits appear manageable in the short run, but the nation’s debt-GDP ratio is already...

August 7, 2017
Alan J. AuerbachWilliam G. Gale
Commentary
Federal Budget and Economy

Can Republicans Thread the Needle on Tax Policy?

Bill Gale discusses the current tax reform initiatives by Congress and the Administration and outlines some issues Republicans may face when trying to pass tax legislation in this...

August 2, 2017
William G. Gale
Research report
Federal Budget and Economy

Dynamic Analysis of the House GOP Tax Plan: An Update

This paper presents estimates of the macroeconomic effects, and resulting dynamic impact on revenues, of the House GOP tax plan announced in June 2016. The estimates were produced in two ways. One set of estimates uses a combination of TPC’s Keynesian model (to project short-run effects on...

June 30, 2017
Benjamin R. Page
Journal Article
Federal Budget and Economy

Donald Trump has a tax plan fit for 140 characters

This article originally appeared on Real Clear Markets on April 27, 2017.

May 1, 2017
William G. GaleHilary GelfondAaron Krupkin
Brief
Federal Budget and Economy

Congress Will Debate Tax Changes while Facing a Growing Debt

This year, Congress will consider what may be the biggest tax bill in decades. This is one of a series of briefs the Tax Policy Center has prepared to help people follow the debate. Each focuses on a key tax policy issue that Congress and the Trump administration may address. This brief...

April 20, 2017
William G. GaleAaron Krupkin

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