Reforming the Pass-Through Deduction
Here’s how the new pass-through deduction works and how it can be reformed to be less complex, less prone to abuse, more neutral, and more economically efficient.
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Scott Greenberg
Senior Analyst
Scott Greenberg was a Senior Analyst with the Center for Federal Tax Policy at the Tax Foundation. His research has been cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Politico, and several other publications, and he has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business News, NPR, and BBC.
Scott grew up in central New Jersey and attended Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in Economics. He enjoys board games, classical music, and happy hours.
Latest Work
Highlights from the New JCT Tax Expenditure Report
How have federal tax expenditures changed since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act? We compare 2017 and 2018 Joint Committee on Taxation estimates.
8 min readTax Reform Isn’t Done
Expiring provisions, scheduled tax increases on investment, unresolved issues in the code—The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed, but tax reform isn’t done yet.
40 min read
States Explore Taxing Carried Interest
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The ‘Grain Glitch’ Needs to Be Fixed
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act tax preference for farm co-ops would distort agricultural activity and create tax planning opportunities for wealthy taxpayers.
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Examining Different Assumptions About the Republican Framework’s Impact on Lower Middle-Income Households
The broad conclusion here is that, in drafting the Republican Framework, lawmakers have left themselves with at least one significant lever for delivering middle class tax relief: the child tax credit.
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Options for Improving Cost Recovery for Structures
If lawmakers are looking to maximize the positive economic effects from a tax bill, then improving tax depreciation for structures should probably be part of the conversation. Here are a few options.
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What Would the “Big Six” Framework Mean for Lower-Middle Income Households?
Based on the details we have, the Big Six tax plan would lower taxes on the bottom 80% of taxpayers, and raise the tax burden on the top 20% of taxpayers.
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Details of the “Big Six” Tax Framework
Republican leadership in the House, Senate, and White House released a framework for a tax proposal that would lower taxes on businesses and individuals and simplify a number of aspects of the federal tax code. Here are the details we know right now.
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What Counts as Tax Reform?
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Taxes on the Rich Were Not That Much Higher in the 1950s
The top 1 percent of Americans today do not face an unusually low tax burden, by historical standards. In the 1950s, when the top marginal income tax rate reached 92 percent, the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid an effective rate of only 16.9 percent.
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