Reviewing Different Methods of Calculating Tax Compliance Costs
Tax compliance creates real costs, which can be calculated. Each method provides unique illustrations of the cost of complying with U.S. tax code.


Tax compliance creates real costs, which can be calculated. Each method provides unique illustrations of the cost of complying with U.S. tax code.


The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced the corporate income tax rate from the highest statutory rate in the developed world to a more globally competitive 21 percent.


The newly expanded standard deduction will reduce the time taxpayers spend working on Form 1040 by 4 to 7 percent, translating into $3.1 to $5.4 billion saved annually.




If extended, the individual income tax provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would increase long-run GDP by 2.2 percent, long-run wages by 0.9 percent, and add 1.5 million new jobs.


Taxpayers in every income level will receive a tax cut in 2018 and for most of the next decade. See how the size of that tax cut will vary for each income group over the next decade with our new, long-term distributional analysis.




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.
Soda taxes are proposed with the promise to improve public health outcomes, but they come with equity concerns because of their regressive nature.


Due to a legislative oversight, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act excluded the category of qualified improvement property investment from 100 percent bonus depreciation.