House Ways and Means Republicans and others have cited a report — sponsored by various business interests and produced by the accounting firm Ernst & Young — claiming that letting the high-income Bush tax cuts expire would shrink employment by 0.5 percent over ten years, which the report says translates...

One of the lesser-known tax breaks that would expire at year-end under current law is a 2010 cut in the estate tax, which had already shrunk considerably between 2001 and 2009 due to President Bush’s 2001 tax cuts.  With policymakers expected to consider what to do about the tax in the coming weeks, we’ve updated a paper that...

Republican leaders in Congress have called for extending a 2010 cut in the estate tax on roughly 7,000 multi-million-dollar estates.  But their proposals, one of which the House passed in August, wouldn’t extend a piece of the same 2010 legislation that strengthened the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit for 13 million working families with moderate incomes.

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Many policymakers cite as fact that cuts in the top income and capital gains tax rates spur much greater economic growth and that increases in those tax rates significantly hurt growth.  A new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report suggests, however, that such easy assumptions are highly problematic.

The report found no statistically significant correlation, all the way...