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As Congress considers policies to foster economic growth, arguments have been made that the traditional expectations of fiscal policy, namely that cutting spending will contract the economy in the short run, should be reversed. Proponents of this view also argue that cutting spending rather than rai...
Author
Jane G. Gravelle, Thomas L. Hungerford
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
23
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
ISBN #
10
Advocates of cutting corporate tax rates frequently make their argument based on the higher statutory rate in the United States as compared with the rest of the world; they argue that cutting corporate taxes would induce large investment flows into the United States, which would create jobs or expan...
Author
Jane G. Gravelle
Binding
Paperback
Pages
34
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1481914537
EAN Code
9781481914536
ISBN #
9
Tax legislation in 1997 reduced capital gains taxes on several types of assets, imposing a 20% maximum tax rate on long-term gains, a rate temporarily reduced to 15% for 2003-2008, which was extended for two additional years in 2006. There is also an exclusion of $500,000 ($250,000 for single return...
Author
Jane G. Gravelle
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
9
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
ISBN #
7
How should capital income be taxed to achieve efficiency and equity? In this detailed study, tax policy analyst Jane Gravelle, brings together comprehensive estimates of effective tax rates on a wide variety of capital by type, industry, legal form, method of financing, and across time. These estima...
Author
Jane G. Gravelle
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
368
Publisher
The MIT Press
ISBN #
0262071584
EAN Code
9780262071581
ISBN #
6
From adjusted gross income to zoning and property taxes, the revised edition of The Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy offers the best and most complete guide to taxes and tax related issues. More than 150 tax practitioners and administrators, policymakers, and academics contributed to this uni...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
499
Publisher
Urban Inst Pr
ISBN #
0877667527
EAN Code
9780877667520
ISBN #
5
Among potential tax reforms under discussion by Congress is revising the tax treatment of foreign source income of U.S. multinational corporations. Some business leaders have been urging a movement toward a territorial tax, which would eliminate some U.S. income taxes on active foreign source income...
Author
Jane G. Gravelle
Binding
Paperback
Pages
50
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
147835559X
EAN Code
9781478355595
ISBN #
4
A number of policy issues have direct or indirect consequences for the nonprofit and charitable sector, including the establishment of a social innovation initiative, changes in the tax treatment of charitable donations, responses to the economic downturn, and health care reform. The nonprofit and c...
Author
Molly F. Sherlock, Jane G. Gravelle
Binding
Paperback
Pages
70
Publisher
BiblioGov
ISBN #
1116265435
EAN Code
9781116265439
ISBN #
3
Congress has long been concerned with ensuring that contributions for which tax deductions are claimed directly benefit charitable activities. Private foundations, a traditional arrangement that allows donations to non-active charitable entities, typically pay grants out of earnings on donated asset...
Author
Molly F. Sherlock, Jane G. Gravelle
Binding
Paperback
Pages
34
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1478355271
EAN Code
9781478355274
ISBN #
2