economic growth

CBO Has No Idea What Repeal of the ACA Means for the Economy or the Deficit

This is what the Congressional Budget office really said about the budgetary and economic effects of repealing the Affordable Care Act: It has no idea. That, of course, it not what the political partisans are saying in the wake of CBO’s Friday release of a report on this exceedingly controversial

June 23, 2015Howard Gleckman

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

Can States Boost Growth By Cutting Top Individual Tax Rates?

States can generate powerful economic growth by cutting income tax rates. That, at least, is the theory behind a recent wave of tax cuts, or proposed tax cuts, around the country. Kansas has cut taxes repeatedly in recent years. So has Wisconsin. In Maine, Governor Paul LePage vows to repeal his

May 4, 2015Howard Gleckman

: Daily Deduction

States of Growth and Reform

Will cuts to a state’s top income tax rate boost growth? Not necessarily. In a new TPC paper , Bill Gale, Aaron Krupkin, and Kim Rueben find little evidence linking state-level economic growth and taxes, especially income tax policy. Neither tax revenues nor top income tax rates have a steady

May 4, 2015Renu Zaretsky

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Tax Cuts for Low- and Moderate Income Households May Be Much More Powerful Than Cuts for the Rich

It turns out that tax cuts for the job creators...don’t create very many jobs. By contrast, tax cuts for low- and moderate-income households can boost economic growth. Those are the results of an interesting new working paper by Owen Zidar for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Zidar, an

April 21, 2015Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

President Obama Targets the "Angel of Death" Capital Gains Tax Loophole

The President plans to announce in Tuesday’s State of the Union Address new proposals that would raise taxes on capital gains for the wealthiest Americans. The proposal would raise the top tax rate on long-term gains and qualifying dividends to 28-percent (including the Affordable Care Act’s 3.8

January 18, 2015Leonard E. Burman

: TaxVox

Tax Policy, Tax Outcomes: That’s Entertainment!

Congress is in recess through the mid-term elections. Read the Daily Deduction each Monday until then. “ California, here I come !” It’s official: Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a $330 million annual incentive program for film and television production. Feature films with budgets

September 22, 2014Renu Zaretsky

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Don’t Count on Much Economic Growth From Individual Tax Reform…Or From Tax Rate Cuts

Can individual income tax reform that cuts rates and eliminates subsidies increase economic growth? How about tax cuts by themselves? The answer is: Maybe, but not by much, according to a new paper by the Tax Policy Center’s Bill Gale and Andrew Samwick, director of The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center

September 10, 2014Howard Gleckman

: TaxVox

Inversions, Loopholes, Taxes and TIFs: What’s a Revenue Service to Do?

Inversions: The waiting is the hardest part. At yesterday’s TPC event Treasury Secretary Jack Lew promised an anti-inversion decision “soon,” but committed to no other details . While everybody agrees corporate inversions are done largely to avoid taxes, does Treasury have the authority to prevent

September 9, 2014Renu Zaretsky

: TaxVox

On Credits, Boycotts, and the Economy

Congress is in recess until Monday, September 8. The Daily Deduction will resume its regular schedule when Congress returns. “ There will be credits .” Alaskans like the way oil industry profits are taxed --barely. The state grants a corporate income tax credit for qualified oil and gas service-

September 2, 2014Renu Zaretsky

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The government and short-run economic growth

Economic growth estimates released yesterday were not good news : the economy contracted in the fourth quarter for the first time since 2009, albeit by...

January 31, 2013Benjamin H. Harris