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What is the tax expenditure budget?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What is the tax expenditure budget?

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The tax expenditure budget displays the estimated revenue losses from special exclusions, exemptions, deductions, credits, deferrals, and preferential tax rates in federal income tax law.

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What are the largest tax expenditures?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What are the largest tax expenditures?

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Tax expenditures make up a substantial part of the federal budget. Some of them are larger than the entire budgets of the programs or departments that spend money for the same or related purposes. For example, the value of the tax breaks for homeownership, although reduced by the 2017 tax act, still exceeds total spending by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Why are tax expenditures controversial?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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Why are tax expenditures controversial?

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To some, tax expenditures are spending items that do not belong in the tax code. To others, they are merely a way of reducing taxes, and repealing them would amount to a tax increase.

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