Scoring Legislative Proposals Archive
Ensuring Tax Rates Don’t Rise with Inflation
September 12, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares With record inflation now squeezing American household budgets, you can thank our Senior Fellow Emeritus Steve Entin for shielding U.S. workers from being pushed into higher tax brackets. If ever there was a paycheck protection program, defending people from bracket creep may be the most important one ever designed. It all started some
Federal Proposal to Increase Tobacco and Nicotine Products Taxes
August 31, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings: The Tobacco Tax Equity Act would double taxes on cigarettes and equalize rates on all other tobacco and nicotine products to match the new higher cigarette rate. The increase would result in substantial increases on chewing tobacco (2,034 percent), pipe tobacco (1,651 percent), and snuff (over 1,677 percent). Vapor products, which
Options for Boosting Economic Growth
April 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As policymakers consider tax options to boost the U.S. economy’s long-run economic growth, they should consider reforms that would increase growth the most while minimizing forgone tax revenue. Using our new book, Options for Reforming America’s Tax Code 2.0, we find that providing a full and immediate deduction for business investments, as well
