WASHINGTON, May 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- New estimates from the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center (TPC) show that the $70 billion tax-cut reconciliation package reportedly agreed to by House and Senate negotiators will offer virtually no benefits to low- and moderate-income households, but shower high-income households with very large tax cuts. The Center has issued a brief report summarizing the TPC findings. The 20 percent of households in the middle of the income spectrum would receive an average of just $20 in tax benefits from the package if it were fully in effect in 2006, TPC found. In contrast, the top one percent of households would receive an average of $13,800 apiece, and households with annual incomes of more than $1 million would receive an average tax c...
The Tax Policy Center (TPC) is a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution that focuses on providing independent analysis of tax policy for both experts and the public. The frequency of tax law changes presents an opportunity to examine the free materials on TPC's recently redesigned www.taxpolicycenter.org. The Web site's main sections include tax topics, numbers, tax facts, library, events, legislation, press room, The Tax Policy Briefing Book, and the TaxVox blog. Some sections include handy help features that provide additional background information. The TPC's homepage highlights certain resources, including new articles, a guide to TPC's many tables, a tax facts of the day and recent and popular publications.
The differences between the tax policies being promoted by Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are stark, but neither candidate's proposal tackles the nation's worsening fiscal problems, analysts say. If Congress fully adopts the next president's tax policies unrelated to health care, average federal taxes in 2009 for the middle fifth of the American population would decline by $1,042 under an Obama administration and by $319 under a McCain administration, according to an analysis of their plans by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (TPC), a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.
Based on past practice, New York's special-interest groups will unleash a campaign against the 2 percent property tax cap as the proposal gains steam in Albany. Taxpayers will hear warnings about the dangers a cap imposes on schools, police, fire protection and myriad services. But a tax cap will not thrust New York into uncharted territory. The Massachusetts experience shows that New York, too, can undo its image as a high-taxed state unfriendly to business and its own residents. Massachusetts was known as Taxachusetts when its voters in 1980 approved a proposition to limit tax levies to 2.5 percent growth each year. Since the limit took effect, per capita residential and commercial real estate taxes have gone up 23 percent there when adjusted for inflation. In New York, the...
WASHINGTON, May 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- New data from the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center indicate that whether the new tax-cut bill the President will sign today is ultimately paid for through program cuts, tax increases, or some combination of the two, the small or non-existent tax benefit that most Americans will get from the bill will likely be outweighed by the cost imposed on them by the financing measures. There is no such thing as a free lunch. This tax bill -- like all recent tax legislation -- is being financed with borrowed money, and that money will eventually have to be paid back," said Leonard Burman, director of the Tax Policy Center. "The vast majority of American households will receive little or no benefit from the bill, but they will share res...
Despite John McCain's reputation for straight talk, we're not hearing much from him on tax policy. Then again, Barack Obama has not been much better. Both senators are proposing tax plans that would dig the federal budget hole trillions of dollars deeper. An analysis of the candidates' plans by the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, concluded that McCain's tax ideas would crank up the national debt by $5 trillion over the next decade. Obama's plans would increase the debt by $3.4 trillion. The campaigns complain the center doesn't factor in their plans for budget-cutting, but we're skeptical McCain and Obama could cut enough to make up the yawning gaps in their accounting.
Overall funding for defense, homeland security, and international affairs (which includes funding for post-war operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan) rose from 3.4 percent of the GDP [Gross Domestic Product] in 2001 to 4.2 of GDP in 2006," an analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities notes. "By contrast ...funding for domestic discretionary programs shrank during this period, declining from 3.4 percent of GDP in 2002 to 3.1 percent in 2006. "American families all across this country have benefited from the tax cuts on dividends and capital gains," he said in a Jan. 6 speech to the Economic Club of Chicago. "Half of American households--that's more than 50 million households--now have some investment in the stock market." As is often the case with politici...
...An analysis by the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center shows that tax legis...
The nonpartisan and well-respected Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution did a thorough job analyzing the very specific tax plans of both John McCain and Barack Obama. Over the next 10 years, Obama's tax plan is projected to cut taxes by $2.9 trillion. McCain then one-upped Obama, with McCain's tax plan projected to cut taxes by an even higher $4.2 trillion over the same 10-year period. Hey, whatever happened to fiscal restraint?
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