Business Tax Expenditures Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings The U.S. system of taxes and transfers is highly progressive. Measuring comprehensive income, inclusive of market-based income and government taxes and transfers, illustrates the total fiscal burden created by a fiscal system. Income transfer programs amplify the U.S. federal tax system’s progressivity, move the state and local system from moderate regressivity

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Topline Preliminary Estimates Net Deficit Impact Long-run GDP Wages FTE Jobs Note: *On a conventional basis. Source: Tax Foundation General Equilibrium Model, March 2023. President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget outlines several major tax increases that would add up to nearly $4.8 trillion in new taxes targeted at businesses and high-income individuals. After $833 billion

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares At his Spring Budget on Wednesday, British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the introduction of a form of full expensing in the UK. Firms will benefit from a 100 percent up-front deduction for most investments in plant and machinery, with certain ‘integral features’ and ‘long life items’ subject to a 50 percent first-year deduction

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget outlines several major tax increases that would bring U.S. tax rates far out of step with international norms. Some of the proposals may be familiar, recycled from prior budgets and failed legislative attempts, but some are new, like the proposed tax hikes for Medicare funding. In total,

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Note: The following is the testimony of Garrett Watson, Senior Policy Analyst and Modeling Manager at the Tax Foundation, prepared for U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on March 7, 2023, titled, “Tax Policy’s Role in Increasing Affordable Housing Supply for Working Families.” Reforming the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and Improving Cost Recovery

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden signed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law in August of last year, promising $52 billion of manufacturing incentives on top of $24 billion of investment tax credits. But passing a law to authorize billions of dollars’ worth of incentives for semiconductor investment is not a guarantee to

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Tennessee joined the ranks of no-income-tax states in 2022 with the phaseout of the Hall Tax on interest and dividend income. But with other states upping their game to attract ever-more-mobile people and businesses, lawmakers and the governor are not content to leave Tennessee’s business taxes in their current, uncompetitive form. Gov. Bill