budget reconciliation Archive
Inflation Reduction Act Accelerated Depreciation & Book Tax: Analysis
August 5, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares August 5, 2022 Cody Kallen, William McBride, Garrett Watson As the U.S. Senate races to consider the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a centerpiece of the proposed tax increases is the 15 percent minimum book tax on corporate income for firms earning over $1 billion, making up about 60 percent of the net revenue
Not the Way to Raise Revenue
August 4, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In the rush to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which features an ill-conceived tax on the book income of U.S. corporations, it is worth reminding policymakers of a well-established finding in the economic literature: that among all the major ways to raise revenue, increasing the corporate tax is the most economically destructive due
Inflation Reduction Act: Details & Analysis
August 2, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Preliminary Revenue and Economic Estimates Net Revenue Long-run GDP Wages FTE Jobs Source: Tax Foundation General Equilibrium Model, July 2022. Last-week’s Democrat-sponsored Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), successor to the House-passed Build Back Better Act of late 2021, has been touted by President Biden to, among other things, help reduce the country’s crippling inflation.
Lawmakers Revive Prescription Drug Pricing Policies, 1,900% Excise Tax
July 11, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares While the bulk of the proposed tax increases and spending programs remain under debate, Democratic lawmakers have reportedly agreed on prescription drug pricing provisions as a starting point for a revived Build Back Better package. Advocates of the drug pricing policy argue it would allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, but it amounts
US Cross-border Tax Changes | OECD Global Minimum Tax Rules
December 20, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As 2021 comes to a close, countries are moving toward harmonizing tax rules for multinationals, but stalled talks on the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) in the United States means new uncertainties for a global agreement and for taxpayers. Despite the 2017 U.S. tax reform serving as inspiration for current discussions of a
Permanent Build Back Better Act Likely Requires Middle Class Tax Hikes
December 15, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has given us a sobering look into our fiscal future under the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), estimating that if all the bill’s policies were made permanent, $3 trillion would be added to the national debt over the next 10 years. This is on top of more than
Build Back Better Plan Inflation
December 13, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As the Senate weighs changes to the spending and tax portions of the Build Back Better Act, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Tax Foundation find the bill would increase the cumulative budget deficit over the next 10 years—contrary to claims the legislation is “fully paid for.” The deficit impact may contribute to
Biden Interest Limitation: Interest Limitation Pile-On
December 10, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares How should tax policy treat interest expenses? Historically, corporate income tax systems in the U.S. and around the world have allowed businesses to deduct their interest paid. As Congress contemplates adding a new worldwide interest limitation rule as part of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), it is useful to consider the potential
Who Gets Hit by the Book Minimum Tax?
November 18, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The current version of the reconciliation bill—the Build Back Better Act—attempts to walk a fine (politically imposed) line: raising hundreds of billions of dollars from higher corporate taxes without raising the corporate tax rate. The centerpiece of this effort is the book minimum tax, a new alternative minimum tax applied to the financial
Build Back Better Inflation Impact: Biden Tax Plan
November 17, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that prices had risen 6.2 percent in the year up to October 2021, the fastest rate since 1990. The persistently high inflation in recent months has made some lawmakers question the need for additional deficit spending. In the short term, the Build Back Better
