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How do taxes affect income inequality?

December 6, 2018 by tpc-admin

How do taxes affect income inequality?

Because high-income households pay a larger share of their income in total federal taxes than low-income households, federal taxes reduce income inequality. But federal taxes have done little to offset increasing income inequality over the past 40 years.

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What criticisms are levied against standard distributional analysis?

December 20, 2015 by tpc-admin

What criticisms are levied against standard distributional analysis?

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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What are the economic effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?

September 19, 2018 by tpc-admin

What are the economic effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?

Most analysts expected the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to boost economic output modestly in both the short and the longer run. So far, the evidence supports the prediction for the short run. It is too soon to tell about the longer run but as yet there is little evidence of a strong effect on investment that could lead to higher longer-run growth.

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