Tax Modeling Archive
Biden Budget Tax Proposals: Details & Analysis
March 23, 2023
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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
Distributed Profits Tax: Details & Analysis
March 1, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The tax treatment of U.S. businesses is a complicated and onerous process for tax preparers, revenue officials, and business owners alike. The tax system treats businesses differently based on their legal form, produces economic distortions, taxes income multiple times, and creates complexity and uncertainty for taxpayers. Even though business taxation has changed in
US Tax Reform Plan: Federal Flat Tax
February 14, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings The federal tax code remains a major source of frustration and controversy for Americans, and a hindrance to economic growth and opportunity. Other countries, such as Estonia, have proven that sufficient tax revenue can be collected in a less frustrating and more efficient way. This report provides an analysis of the
Why Dynamic Scoring Still Matters
January 12, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Earlier this week, the House of Representatives approved their rules package for the 118th Congress. One notable change to the rules will require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to produce estimates of the “budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables”
Bonus Depreciation: Details & Analysis
December 21, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings Cost recovery refers to how businesses deduct their investments over time. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reintroduced 100 percent bonus depreciation for short-lived investments, such as machinery and equipment, allowing full cost recovery for qualifying investments. Bonus depreciation will begin phasing down at the beginning of 2023. In
R&D Expensing: Canceling R&D Amortization
December 7, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The tax treatment of research and development (R&D) expenses is one of the biggest issues facing Congress as the year winds down. Since the beginning of 2022, companies have had to spread deductions for R&D costs out over five years, instead of deducting them immediately. This policy, known as R&D amortization, reduces economic
Child Tax Credit Reform Options: Details & Analysis
November 10, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares November 10, 2022 Garrett Watson Alex Durante Garrett Watson, Alex Durante As we near this year’s “lame duck” session of Congress, there has been renewed interest in child tax credit reform as part of a broader tax deal. One year after the expanded child tax credit originally enacted as part of the American
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Business Tax Increases: Details & Analysis
November 1, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings Starting in 2022 and continuing through 2026, businesses will face several tax changes scheduled as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), including a switch to five-year amortization of R&D expenses, the gradual phaseout of 100 percent bonus depreciation, a tighter interest deduction limitation, and an increase in international
Bonus Depreciation & Inflation | Permanent 100% Bonus Depreciation
October 27, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Starting next year, 100 percent bonus depreciation for short-lived investment—originally enacted in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—will begin to phase down through the end of 2026. Making 100 percent bonus depreciation permanent would boost economic growth and American incomes in any economic environment, but this policy change would be especially
