The Tax Reform Tradeoff: Eliminating Tax Expenditures, Reducing Rates
The paper puts real numbers behind different scenarios for a structure for tax reform: eliminating income tax expenditures to enable lower tax rates.
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The paper puts real numbers behind different scenarios for a structure for tax reform: eliminating income tax expenditures to enable lower tax rates.
Independent analyses agree unanimously that either bill would add significantly to the growing national debt.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2017/12/poll-voters-say-that-tax-reform-shouldn%E2%80%99t-grow-the-debt
"The potential addition of a revenue trigger is the latest in a list of fiscal gimmicks that are being included in this bill," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2017/11/peterson-foundation-statement-on-senate-tax-bill-0
"This tax legislation is increasingly irresponsible from a fiscal standpoint," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
"In just the next decade, this tax bill could add more than $2 trillion to our national debt, which is already $20 trillion and growing," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2017/12/peterson-statement-on-tax-bill-conference-committee
"This report confirms that tax cuts don’t pay for themselves," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
To help better inform the current debate over tax reform, the Tax Policy Center (with a grant from the Peterson Foundation) put real numbers behind different scenarios for tax reform that are both distributionally neutral and fiscally responsible.
Tax expenditures cost the government about $1.5 trillion each year, more than the budget of any agency or major spending program.
Major tax expenditures tend to benefit high income taxpayers more than lower income groups.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2016/04/who-benefits-from-tax-expenditures
The U.S. collects less revenue as a share of GDP than several other high-income countries such as Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2016/04/the-us-tax-burden-is-low-compared-to-most-advanced-economies