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Business Taxes

Understanding R&D Tax Breaks and Reform Options

June 21, 2023 –
In recent years, businesses have been able to fully deduct expenses related to research and development (R&D) in the year the investment was made (often...
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Federal Budget and Economy

House GOP Plan To Repeal IRA Incentives Would Hike Taxes For Households, Tilted Toward High-Income Earners

May 3, 2023 –
House Republicans on April 26 passed legislation on a party-line vote a bill that would rescind many Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) clean energy tax incentives in exchange...
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Business Taxes

Industrial Policy Is Back. What Will It Mean For Taxes?

September 13, 2022 –
Industrial policy is trending. At a time when few policy ideas win bipartisan support, government subsidies for favored industries are feeling the love from Democrats...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

New Buyback Excise Tax Snares Foreign Investors

August 16, 2022 –
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) approved by Congress last week included a new 1 percent stock buyback excise tax on US publicly traded corporations. Many...
Federal Budget and Economy

Ignore the Debate Over Whether the Inflation Reduction Act Raises Taxes on Those Making $400,000 Or Less

August 12, 2022 –
As Congress is about to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Washington is once again having a breathless debate over very little. This one is about...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Inflation Reduction Act Primarily Impacts Top 1 Percent of Taxpayers

August 11, 2022 –
In a new analysis , the Tax Policy Center finds the tax provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are highly progressive. Taxes would rise...
Business Taxes

The Booming Economy, Not The 2017 Tax Act, Is Fueling Corporate Tax Receipts

June 3, 2022 –
Corporate tax revenues boomed in 2021 and some supporters of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act argue that the big tax reductions in the...
Federal Budget and Economy

Should Congress Raise Taxes To Fight Inflation?

June 2, 2022 –
Should Congress Use Tax Hikes To Fight Inflation? In a Monday Wall Street Journal column (paywall), President Biden urged Congress to help fight inflation by...

Happy Birthday, TPC

April 1, 2022 –
On April 1, 2002, a press release announced, “The Tax Policy Center, a new joint venture between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution” was...
Federal Budget and Economy

How the TCJA Affected the Housing Market

March 30, 2022 –
When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was enacted, critics claimed that reducing the tax subsidy for mortgage interest would hurt home values ...

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How do taxes affect income inequality?

December 6, 2018 by tpc-admin

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How do taxes affect income inequality?

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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

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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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What are dynamic scoring and dynamic analysis?

December 20, 2015 by tpc-admin

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What are dynamic scoring and dynamic analysis?

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Tax, spending, and regulatory policies can affect incomes, employment, and other broad measures of economic activity. Dynamic analysis accounts for those macroeconomic impacts, while dynamic scoring uses dynamic analysis in estimating the budgetary impact of proposed policy changes.

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