View Federal Tax Policy Analyses: By Category By Date: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 - 1991 New House Stimulus Proposal Dominated by Multi-Year or Permanent Tax Cuts Robert Greenstein Revised 12/26/01 36K-HTML, 60K-PDF, 12pp. Joint Tax Committee Estimate Shows Tax Cuts in New Stimulus Plan Would Have Large Costs after Recession Ends Robert Greenstein, Richard Kogan, and Andrew Lee Revised 12/21/01 12K-HTML, 45K-PDF, 4pp. Fact Sheet: New House Stimulus Proposal Retains Many Features of Earlier House Bill John Springer 12/21/01 11K-HTML, 35K-PDF, 2pp. Fact Sheet: Social Security and the Tax Cut John Springer 12/13/01 9K-HTML, 34K-PDF, 2pp. Social Security and the Tax Cut Richard Kogan, Robert Greenstein, and Peter Orszag Revised 12/13/01 38K-HTML, 64K-PDF, 8pp. Senate Finance Committee Plan Includes Sound Stimulus Proposals Joel Friedman, Robert Greenstein, and Richard Kogan Revised 12/11/01 48K-HTML, 117K-PDF, 12pp. Fact Sheet: Senate Finance Committee Plan Includes Sound Stimulus Proposals 12/10/01 8K-HTML, 33K-PDF, 2pp. Senate Republican Leadership Stimulus Plan Retains Ineffective And Costly Proposals Joel Friedman and Robert Greenstein 12/10/01 5K-HTML, 54K-PDF, 8pp. Thomas Proposal to Suspend the Taxation of Unemployment Benefits Would Provide No Immediate Stimulus and Favor Higher-Income Unemployed Workers over Lower-Income Workers Wendell Primus, Robert Greenstein, and Nicholas Johnson 12/7/01 15K-HTML, 34K-PDF, 4pp. Corporate AMT Repeal Is Ineffective Stimulus Joel Friedman 12/5/01 9K-HTML, 29K-PDF, 2pp. Attractions of Payroll Tax Holiday Diminish Upon Closer Examination Robert Greenstein and Peter Orszag Revised 12/4/01 19K-HTML, 40K-PDF, 5pp. Tax Cuts Are Not Automatically the Best Stimulus: A Response to Glenn Hubbard Peter Orszag and Joseph Stiglitz 11/27/01 29K-HTML, 46K-PDF, 7pp. Number of Individuals Exhausting Unemployment Insurance Benefits Already Up Sharply Isaac Shapiro 11/26/01 32K-HTML, 31K-PDF, 3pp. Unemployment Insurance as Economic Stimulus Peter Orszag 11/15/01 9K-HTML, 35K-PDF, 2pp. Strengthening Unemployment Benefits Would Be Much More Effective in Saving Jobs than Most Corporate Tax Cuts Peter Orszag 11/14/01 9K-HTML, 29K-PDF, 2pp. Acceleration of Upper-Bracket Rate Reductions Would Be Costly and Ineffective as a Stimulus Measure Joel Friedman 11/12/01 15K-HTML, 33K-PDF, 3pp. The Administration's Stimulus Proposal: Is it a Sound and Balanced Package? Robert Greenstein and Joel Friedman Revised 11/6/01 50K-HTML, 70K-PDF, 9pp. pub. # 01-178, $3.00 Fact Sheet: A Federally Financed Sales Tax Holiday Would Be Difficult To Implement and Would Have Limited Stimulus Effect John Springer 11/6/01 6K-HTML, 28K-PDF, 1pp. A Federally Financed Sales Tax Holiday Would Be Difficult to Implement and Would Have Limited Stimulus Effect Nicholas Johnson and Iris Lav Revised 11/6/01 30K-HTML, 42K-PDF, 6pp. pub. # 01-195, $3.00 Senate Republicans Embrace Administration Proposal That Is More Troubling in Key Respects than the House Stimulus Bill Joel Friedman, Andrew Lee, and Robert Greenstein Revised 11/5/01 26K-HTML, 43K-PDF, 6pp. pub. # 01-193, $3.00 Ways and Means Package Departs from Bipartisan Principles For Effective Stimulus and Offers Little Help to the Unemployed Joel Friedman and Robert Greenstein Revised 11/5/01 69K-HTML, 89K-PDF, 18pp. pub. # 01-186, $4.00 Fact Sheet: Ways and Means Package Departs from Bipartisan Principles For Effective Stimulus and Offers Little Help to the Unemployed John Springer Revised 11/2/01 13K-HTML, 36K-PDF, 2pp. Where Has All the Surplus Gone? Richard Kogan 11/1/01 46K-HTML, 89K-PDF, 11pp.pp. pub. # 01-196, $4.00 How Much Unemployment Assistance Is Provided under the Bill the Ways and Means Committee Has Approved? Wendell Primus 10/24/01 43K-HTML, 56K-PDF, 10pp. pub. # 01-189, $3.00 Statement of Joseph Stiglitz at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Press Conference 10/12/01 17K-HTML, 78K-PDF, 5pp. Fact Sheet: Accelerating Enacted Rate Cuts Would Be an Ineffective Stimulus John Springer 10/17/01 7K-HTML, 29K-PDF, 2pp. Fact Sheet: The Administration's Stimulus Proposal: Is it a Sound and Balanced Package? John Springer 10/12/01 10K-HTML, 72K-PDF, 2pp. Fact Sheet: Would a Capital Gains Tax Cut Stimulate the Economy? John Springer 10/11/01 6K-HTML, 69K-PDF, 1pp. Accelerating Enacted Rate Cuts Would Be Ineffective Stimulus Joel Friedman 10/4/01 29K-HTML, 45K-PDF, 6pp. pub. # 01-177, $3.00 A Permanent Corporate Tax Rate Cut: The Wrong Medicine For Short-term Economic Ills Joel Friedman and Iris Lav 9/26/01 42K-HTML, 66K-PDF, 11pp pub. # 01-167, $3.00 Would a Capital Gains Tax Cut Stimulate The Economy? Joel Friedman, Iris Lav, and Peter Orszag 9/20/01 46K-HTML, 105K-PDF, 10pp pub. # 01-162, $3.00 A Five-Year Extension of The Internet Tax "Moratorium" Would Further Erode The Tax Base of States And Localities Michael Mazerov Rev. 9/4/01 60K-HTML , 80K-PDF, 15pp. pub. # 01-203, $4.00 Should New Limits on State Corporate Profits Taxes Be a Quid Pro Quo for the States' Ability to Tax Internet Sales? Michael Mazerov 9/4/01 53K-HTML , 74K-PDF, 14pp. pub. # 01-157, $4.00 Special Report Series: Analyses of OMB Mid-Session Review 9/3/01 45K-HTML The Disappearing 2001 Surplus: Tax Cuts, Budget Increases, and the Economy Richard Kogan and Robert Greenstein Revised 8/28/01 59K-HTML, 60K-PDF, 9pp. pub # 01-155, $3.00 CBO Projects Near-Term Deficits Outside Social Security Joel Friedman and Richard Kogan 8/28/01 31K-HTML, 46K-PDF, 7pp. pub # 01-156, $3.00 House Passing Additional Tax Cuts Without Offsets 8/13/01 5K-HTML, 24K-PDF, 1pp. pub # 01-134F, no charge How Realistic Are the Discretionary Funding Levels in the President's Budget and the Congressional Budget Resolution? Cynthia Perry and Richard Kogan 8/3/01 53K-HTML, 54-HTML, 8pp. pub # 01-136, $3.00 Administration Critique of Center Analysis Does Not Withstand Scrutiny Robert Greenstein and Peter Orszag 8/3/01 16K-HTML, 35K-PDF, 4pp. Social Security and the Tax Cut: The 75-year Cost of the Tax Cut Is More than Twice As Large as the Long-term Deficit in Social Security Peter Orszag, Richard Kogan, and Robert Greenstein 8/2/01 32K-HTML, 55K-PDF, 6pp. pub # 01-133, $3.00 House To Consider Additional Tax Cuts Without Offsets Joel Friedman, Sam Elkin, and Richard Kogan 8/1/01 43K-HTML, 57K-PDF, 10pp. pub # 01-134, $3.00 Fact Sheet: How Much of The Surplus Remains After The Tax Cut? John Springer, Robert Greenstein, and Richard Kogan 6/27/01 13K-HTML, 32K-PDF, 2pp. 01-115F, no charge How Much of The Surplus Remains After The Tax Cut? Richard Kogan, Robert Greenstein, and Joel Friedman Rev. 6/27/01 48K-HTML, 63K-PDF, 10pp. 01-115, $3.00 New Tax-Cut Law Ultimately Costs as Much as Bush Plan Gimmicks Used to Camouflage $4.1 Trillion Cost in Second Decade Joel Friedman, Richard Kogan, and Robert Greenstein Revised 6/27/01 34K-HTML, 50K-PDF, 8pp. 01-102, $3.00 Possible Health Insurance Deduction Amendment To the Patients' Bill of Rights Offers Little Help to the Uninsured Iris J. Lav and Edwin Park 6/19/01 26K-HTML, 46K-PDF, 7pp. 01-121, $3.00 The Changes The New Tax Law Makes in Refundable Tax Credits For Low-Income Working Families, Robert Greenstein Rev. 6/18/01 29K-HTML, 53K-PDF, 6pp. 01-120, $3.00 Likely Medical Savings Account Amendments to Patient's Bill of Rights Could Drive Up the Price of Health Insurance Premiums and Increase the Number of Uninsured Iris J. Lav and Edwin Park 6/12/01 34K-HTML, 46K-PDF, 9pp. 01-113, $3.00 Pathbreaking CBO Study Shows Dramatic Increases in Income Disparities in 1980s and 1990s: An Analysis of the CBO Data Isaac Shapiro, Robert Greenstein and Wendell Primus 5/31/01 Press Release: 11K-HTML, 35K-PDF, 3pp. Full Report: 63K-HTML, 67K-PDF, 13pp. 01-103, $4.00 Under Conference Agreement, Dollar Gains for Top One Percent Essentially the Same as Under House and Bush Packages 5/26/01 35K-HTML, 25K-PDF, 3pp. 01-101, $3.00 Low-Income Families with a Full-Time Working Parent Would Fare Much Better Under Senate than House Child Credit Provision 5/22/01 4K-HTML, 69K-PDF, 1pp. 01-000, $0.00 Nearly One of Every Four Children Would Fare Better Under Senate than House Child Tax Credit Provision Allen Dupree and Wendell Primus 5/22/01 18K-HTML, 88K-PDF, 5pp. Who Would Benefit From the Tax Proposal Before the Senate? Isaac Shapiro and Robert Greenstein Revised 5/21/01 31K-HTML, 88K-PDF, 7pp. Senate Finance Proposal Masks Full Cost: Chairman's Mark is Nearly as Large as Bush Tax Cut in Second Ten Years Richard Kogan, Joel Friedman, and Robert Greenstein Revised 5/15/01 40K-HTML and 105K-PDF, 10pp Estate Tax Repeal and the Top Income Tax Rate Cut: A State-by-State Look at Who Would Benefit Iris J. Lav 5/14/01 62K-HTML and 86K-PDF, 4pp Even If the 39.6 Percent Rate Is Unchanged, Taxpayers in the Top Bracket Would Receive a Tax Cut of More than $10,000 from Other Rate Changes Isaac Shapiro Revised 5/10/01 7K-HTML and 70K-PDF, 2pp New Treasury Press Release Inflates Impact of Lowering Top Tax Rate On Small Business Owners Robert Greenstein and Isaac Shapiro 5/9/01 9K-HTML and 19K-PDF, 3pp Will Congressional Tax-Writers Evade the Budget Resolution Limit on Tax Cuts? Tax-Writers Could Do So Through Backloading and Other Gimmicks Joel Friedman, Richard Kogan, and Robert Greenstein 5/9/01 38K-HTML and 100K-PDF, 10pp If Estate Tax Is Repealed, Repeal of Gift Tax Would Not Be Far Behind Iris J. Lav 5/3/01 8K-HTML and 72K-PDF, 2pp Reduction of Top Rate Costs $237 Billion Over Ten Years, Even Though Fewer Than 1% of Filers Are in The Top Bracket Joel Friedman and Robert Greenstein 5/3/01 10K-HTML and 70K-PDF, 2pp Reducing the Top Tax Rates: How Much Benefit to Small Business? Many More Small Business Owners Would Fail to Benefit From Bush Tax Plan than Would Benefit from Cut in Top Tax Rates Isaac Shapiro and Robert Greenstein 5/3/01 19K-HTML and 83K-PDF, 5pp The Constitutional Amendment to Require a Two-Thirds Supermajority to Raise Taxes Robert Greenstein 4/24/01 33K-HTML and 96K-PDF, 9pp Administration MSA Expansions Could Drive Up Health Insurance Premiums and Create New Tax Shelter Iris J. Lav and Edwin Park Revised 4/24/01 32K-HTML and 87K-PDF, 9pp The Bush Tax Cut Is Now about the Same Size As the Reagan Tax Cuts Robert Greenstein 4/19/01 34K-HTML and 99K-PDF, 8pp Heritage Foundation Attack on Center Rests on Misrepresentation Robert Greenstein 4/19/01 7K-HTML and 70K-PDF, 2pp Tax Freedom Day Report Flawed Iris J. Lav, Joel Friedman, and James Sly 4/13/01 52K-HTML and 39K-PDF, 3pp Tax Foundation Figures Lead to Inaccurate Impression of Middle-Class Tax Burdens Iris J. Lav, Joel Friedman, and James Sly Revised 4/13/01 37K-HTML and 137K-PDF, 10pp The Provisions in the House Tax Bill for Married Couples James Sly and Isaac Shapiro Revised 4/5/01 9K-HTML and 76K-PDF, 2pp How the House Bill to Expand the Child Tax Credit and Reduce Taxes for Married Couples Would Affect Lower-Income Families Robert Greenstein and Isaac Shapiro Revised 4/5/01 38K-HTML and 99K-PDF, 11pp Lower-Cost Estate Tax Repeal Reflects Slow Phase-In Joel Friedman Revised 4/4/01 31K-HTML and 32K-PDF, full report, 8pp 5K-HTML and 15K-PDF short version, 1pp Cost of Tax Cut Would More Than Double to $5 Trillion in Second Ten Years Richard Kogan, Joel Friedman, and Robert Greenstein Revised 4/3/01 28K-HTML and 54K-PDF, full report, 8pp 8K-HTML and 25K-PDF short version, 2pp Would Raising IRA Contribution Limits Bolster Retirement Security for Lower- and Middle-Income Families? Peter Orszag and Jonathan Orszag 4/2/01 69K-HTML and 114K-PDF, full report, 16pp, 88K-PDF summary, 4pp About One Percent of Small Business Owners Pay 39.6 Percent Tax Rate Isaac Shapiro and Robert Greenstein Revised 3/28/01 7K-HTML, and 72K-PDF, 1pp Fact Sheet: Tax Cuts vs. Spending Increases: Is There a Basis for Chairman Greenspan's Preference for Tax Cuts? 3/27/01 11K-HTML, 75K-PDF, 3pp, and 36K-HTML full report House Ways and Means Action to Date Adds $300 Billion to Cost of Administration's Tax Cuts Joel Friedman, Richard Kogan, and James Sly 3/23/01 21K-HTML, and 79K-PDF, 5pp Tax Cuts vs. Spending Increases: Is There a Basis for Chairman Greenspan's Preference for Tax Cuts? Jason Furman and Peter Orszag 3/21/01 37K-HTML, and 43K-PDF, 10pp Fact Sheet: How to Avoid Over-Committing the Available Surplus: Would a Tax-Cut "Trigger" Be Effective or Is There a Better Way? 3/21/01 6K-HTML, 15K-PDF, 1pp, and 30K-HTML full report What The Trustees' Report Indicates About The Financial Status of Social Security Robert Greenstein and Wendell Primus 3/19/01 24K-HTML press release, 22K-PDF, 2pp press release, and 30K-PDF, 5pp Fact Sheet: Marginal Tax Rate Reductions and the Economy: What Would Be the Long-Term Effects of the Bush Tax Cut? 3/19/01 9K-HTML, 21K-PDF, 2pp, and 54K-HTML full report How to Avoid Over-Committing the Available Surplus: Would a Tax-Cut "Trigger" Be Effective or Is There a Better Way? Richard Kogan and Robert Greenstein Revised 3/16/01 27K-HTML, 33K-PDF, 7pp. summary and 81K-PDF, 22pp. summary Income Tax Rates and High-Income Taxpayers: How Strong is the Case for Major Rate Reductions? Isaac Shapiro and Joel Friedman Revised 3/16/01 100K-HTML, 80K-PDF, 35pp, 30K-PDF, 6pp summary and 10K-HTML fact sheet How Strong Is The Case For Major Rate Reductions For High-income Taxpayers? Isaac Shapiro, Joel Friedman, and John Springer Revised 3/16/01 10K-HTML, 18K-PDF, 2pp and 84K-PDF of full report Can Capital Gains Carry-Over Basis Replace The Estate Tax? Iris J. Lav and Joel Friedman 3/15/01 24K-HTML, and 29K-PDF, 6pp Marginal Tax Rate Reductions and the Economy: What Would Be the Long-Term Effects of the Bush Tax Cut? Peter Orszag 3/15/01 54K-HTML, 53K-PDF, 13pp. 9K-HTML New Treasury Distributional Table Departs Sharply from Previous Treasury Methodology: New Table Understates Gains to the Top and Overstates Gains for the Rest; Fuller Assessment Shows Gains Concentrated at the Top Isaac Shapiro Revised 3/9/01 23K-HTML, and 27K-PDF, 6pp. Bush Tax Cut and House Rate Cuts Widen Record After-tax Income Disparities: Percentage Increase in After-tax Income for Those at the Very Top Three Times Larger than for Middle Fifth Isaac Shapiro and Jim Sly Revised 3/7/01 13K-HTML, 20K-PDF, 3pp. New Joint Tax Committee Estimates Raise Cost of Bush Tax Plan Cost Now Well Over $2 Trillion Richard Kogan and Robert Greenstein Revised 3/6/01 9K-HTML, 18K-PDF, 3pp. Is The House Tax Bill Necessary to Avoid a Recession? Peter Orszag Revised 3/5/01 17K-HTML, 24K-PDF, 4pp. Center Responds to Secretary O'Neill on the Benefits Of the Bush Tax Cut for Highest-Income Taxpayers Robert Greenstein 3/1/01 15K-HTML, 21K-PDF, 4pp. Is a Large Tax Cut Needed to Forestall an Explosion in Spending? Robert Greenstein 2/27/01 14K-HTML, 25K-PDF, 4pp. The Latest IRS Data On After-Tax Income Isaac Shapiro 2/26/01 Full Report: 60K-HTML, 21K-PDF, 10pp. Press Release: 37K-HTML, 10K-PDF, 9pp. Heritage Response to Center Analysis of Cost of Bush Tax Cut Does Not Withstand Scrutiny Robert Greenstein and Joel Friedman 2/26/01 27K-HTML, 32K-PDF, 8pp. 4,500 Very Large Estates Would Receive as Much in Annual Tax Reductions under Bush Plan as 140 Million Americans Isaac Shapiro, Iris J. Lav, and Jim Sly 2/26/01 Press Release: 7K-HTML, 19K-PDF, 2pp. Full Report: 21K-HTML, 36K-PDF, 6pp. pub. # 01-026, $3.00 How the Bush Tax Cut Compares in Size To the Reagan Tax Cuts Peter Orszag Rev. 2/20/01 24K-HTML, 36K-PDF, 6pp. Tax Credits for Individuals to Buy Health Insurance Won't Help Many Uninsured Families Iris J. Lav and Joel Friedman 2/15/01 94K-HTML, 96K-PDF, 25pp. Press Release: More than Half of Black and Hispanic Families Would Not Benefit from Bush Tax Plan 2/15/01 8K-HTML, 22K-PDF, 2pp. More than Half of Black and Hispanic Families Would Not Benefit from Bush Tax Plan Isaac Shapiro, Allen Dupree and Jim Sly 2/15/01 29K-HTML, 49K-PDF, 7pp. Testimony of Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities before the House Committee on Ways and Means Robert Greenstein 2/13/01 49K-HTML, 52K-PDF, 14pp. An Estimated 12 Million Low- and Moderate-Income Families, with 24 Million Children, Would Not Benefit from Bush Tax Plan Isaac Shapiro, Allen Dupree and James Sly 2/7/01 21K-HTML, 29K-PDF, 6pp. Taking Down the Toll Booth to the Middle Class? Myth and Reality Governing the Bush Tax Plan and Lower-income Working Families Robert Greenstein and Isaac Shapiro Revised 2/6/01. 35K-HTML, 48K-PDF, 9pp Estate Tax Repeal: A Costly Windfall for the Wealthiest Americans Iris J. Lav and Joel Friedman Revised 2/6/01 80K-HTML, 86K-PDF, 19pp. How Would Families at Different Income Levels Benefit from the Bush Tax Cut? Robert Greenstein 2/6/01 24K-HTML, 31K-PDF, 6pp. CBO Assumes Faster Economic Growth than It Had Previously, and Therefore a Larger Ten-Year Surplus Richard Kogan Revised 1/31/01 16K-HTML, 26K-PDF, 4pp. What the New CBO Projections Mean: Can the New Surplus Projections Accommodate a Large Tax Cut? Robert Greenstein and Richard Kogan 1/31/01 109K-HTML, 70K-PDF, 14pp. Taxes on Middle-Income Families are Declining Iris J. Lav Revised 1/10/01 90K-HTML, 120K-PDF, 9pp. pub # 00-153, $3.00 Can the New Surplus Projections Accommodate a Large Tax Cut? Robert Greenstein 1/4/01 55K-HTML, 57K-PDF, 14pp.