Tax Reform Case Study

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The tax policy in the United States is very confusing. When the tax policy was originally written in 1913 it was four hundred pages. Now, over the past ninety one years, that tax policy has evolved to over 72,000 pages. Since the tax code has become so lengthy and nearly impossible to understand, the topic of tax reform has been in the minds of many. Although, most barely think about tax reform until tax season. It is a controversial subject due to the impact a change in tax code would have on the American people. The two most popular and widely known stakeholders in this debate are the two major political parties in the United States, the Democrats and the Republicans. The two parties share absolutely no common ground on the subject of

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Senator Burr has nine issues that he has chosen to highlight on his website. The first being “Jobs and Opportunity”, he states that he wants more Americans to be able to find work and support their families. He feels that tax reform is how to address this issue by “closing tax loopholes, promote job creation, and make the federal tax system less burdensome on working families and small businesses”. (burr.senate.gov, 1) This is a very big issue and will take

Our live top marginal tax rate is 39.6% which would be kept there in the House bill, but the Senate bill seeks to reduce it down to 38.5%, which is favored by supply-side economic theorists who state that this reduction will let the economy grow.

After the elections, Republicans understand they have to pass a tax bill in order to show a significant accomplishment. Big losses in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday exposed their vulnerabilities going into next year’s midterm elections.

On December 1st, 2017 the Senate passed the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades. Republicans were lining up to approve the bill that will cover almost every corner of the United States economy, affecting families, small business owners and multinational corporations, with the biggest benefits flowing to the highest-earning Americans. Parts of these bills include the Child Tax Credit, the 529 Plan, Blocking Arctic Drilling, and Remove Endowment Tax Exemption.

This article by Mathew Yglesias is about the up and coming tax reform the Republican party is trying to promote and pass before the years end. It explains how this affects businesses, upper, middle, and lower classes of individuals to. It defines tax reform and gives examples of how it could affect everyone. It talks about what good can come from the proposed reform and describes the Senate ‘Byrd Rule” in somewhat generic terms for understanding. Throughout the article both sides are represented in what they want in the new reform bill and gives a brief list of what Republicans are trying to push through the Senate. It supplies a table of how much the government receives now and how the cuts effect certain programs. It gives a brief history

The US House of Representatives tax panel Chairman (member in charge), Kevin Brady, said that the goal for the bill is to “contain a permanent corporate tax rate cut to 20 percent from 35 percent." In doing so the House of representatives is hoping to get these corporations to invest the saved money on raising their employees wage therefore benefiting the middle class. However there is debate on whether this will actually happen or if the corporations will just sit on the profit and keep the money for themselves. Apart from this there are still many things to be resolved before the bill becomes a law and as Minority floor leader, Nancy Pelosi stated “[republicans are] pushing a half-baked tax bill with ruinous consequences for workers and middle-class Americans." In other words the bill is to benefit the rich while affecting the middle and lower classes.

On CNN news, Democratic senator Bernie Sanders and Republican senator Ted Cruz debated about the GOP tax plan debate. The GOP tax plan proposed to lower corporate tax rates and decrease federal income tax brackets. Senator Cruz argued that by lowering corporate tax rates, there will be more jobs and revenue because of the trickle down effect. Senator Sanders argues that this tax plan will only benefit one-tenth of the one percent.

The agenda went along as planned until news broke that the long-awaited details of US President Donald Trump’s tax plan had begun to come together. This past November, the House of Representatives voted to pass the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” which Trump has said he wants finalized and on his desk before Christmas. The Senate passed its own version in early December. According to news reports, Republican leaders are likely headed to a conference committee to combine their two separate bills into a final tax reform plan.

The recent tax cuts were set to be put into place when President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs act on December 22, 2017. “It cuts the corporate from 35 percent to 21 percent beginning in 2018,” (TheBalance). People who supported the passing of this bill believed that it would “supercharge” the economy. They said it will, “start encouraging businesses to increase wages and reinvest in the U.S,” (lifehacker).

When it comes to the new tax reform framework, while it might help some Americans, it also can hurt the rest of the people who does not fall into one of the tax brackets. However, if the plan is done accurately and it is designed to help all of America, not just the wealthy, then they can get it done. Also, it should be called a tax cut and not a reform. Honestly, the question everyone needs to ask is which income level is really going to benefit from the new framework. Which individual or married couple will this new tax reform help or worst hurt the most.

Obviously, business owners and individuals tune in to the news when the issue of tax cuts is raised by the government. Yet, individuals and many news reports are skeptical of a tax plan proposed by Congress. While the administration promises a middle class tax cut, an article published on businessinsider.com disagrees, as the title exclaims: “Here's how the Trump tax plan would raise taxes on many middle-income families (J. Barro, 2017).” Effectively, contents of the proposal as well as its’ probable effect on businesses and individuals are reported in debt in the written piece by Josh Barro. As a result, his analysis confirms that businesses will benefit from the proposed tax cuts. However, upon further assessment, the final breakdown for individuals is not so positive. In other words, individual tax payers will see their tax bill increase under the new proposal.