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Individual Taxes

A New Study Suggests Congress Could Raise Money By Increasing Capital Gains Tax Rates To 47 Percent. But There Is A Catch

September 16, 2020 –
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has proposed raising tax rates on long-term capital gains income for the highest-income investors.
Federal Budget and Economy

TPC Updates Its Online Briefing Book

June 11, 2020 –
To follow significant fiscal changes, such as those being driven by the legislative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, it helps to have a background in...
Business Taxes

Capital Gains Cuts Won’t Cure the Covid-19 Economy

May 11, 2020 –
Back in 1991, Saturday Night Live spoofed politicians who see capital gains tax cuts as a panacea. In one sketch, after being frozen for eons,...
Business Taxes

Corporate Taxes: Are They Fair? Who Really Pays Them, And When?

March 4, 2020 –
When it comes to corporate taxes, what’s “fair?” Do taxpayers have a sense of what major corporations pay in taxes? And when corporations pay income taxes, do we understand who ultimately bears that tax burden?
Business Taxes

Did TCJA’s Corporate Rate Cuts Work As Promised? No Signs Yet.

February 19, 2020 –
Last week , I debated American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Aparna Mathur on the question of whether the corporate income tax rate cuts from the...

Treasury Left The Door Open To The 20-Percent Tax Deduction For Pass-Through Businesses

January 24, 2019 –
Last Friday, Treasury finalized its regulations for the special 20-percent tax deduction for income from pass-through businesses, which was added by the 2017 Tax Cuts...
State and Local Issues

States Enjoyed Another Stellar Quarter Of Revenue Growth; But The Longer-Term Fiscal Outlook Is Cloudy

December 18, 2018 –
States closed their fiscal 2018 books at the end of June on a positive note. But they shouldn’t bank on the good times lasting forever...
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Business Taxes

Treasury’s New Pass-Through Rules Double Down On The Deduction’s Regressivity

August 14, 2018 –
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) contains a special 20-percent individual income tax deduction for owners of pass-through businesses that was always going to...
capital gains taxes

Indexing Capital Gains Could Both Reduce Lock-In and Harm the Economy

August 3, 2018 –
In response to my post attempting to shoot down the Trump Administration’s trial balloon re capital gains indexation, a financial advisor wondered if I might...

Tariffs, Trade and Time: Making America Pay Again

July 3, 2018 –
Happy Fourth! Between barbecues and fireworks, we should think about what colonial Americans wanted when they declared independence: Among their demands, the right to conduct business freely and to consent to the taxes they paid.

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What criticisms are levied against standard distributional analysis?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What criticisms are levied against standard distributional analysis?

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Economists disagree on which taxes to include, how to measure tax burdens, what to assume about tax incidence, how to measure income, what period of analysis to use, and whether to include outlays in the calculations.

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Who bears the burden of the corporate income tax?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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Who bears the burden of the corporate income tax?

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The burden is shared among stockholders and, unintuitively, among a broader group of workers and investors.

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