Huaqun Li Senior Economist Dr. Huaqun Li is a Senior Economist at the Tax Foundation. She focuses on developing and maintaining the Foundation’s Taxes and Growth Model, which models the budgetary and economic effects of changes to federal tax policy. She also uses the Taxes and Growth Model to model individual and corporate tax policy proposals and reform plans and helps with publishing the results. Before joining the Tax Foundation, she was a research economist at Regional Economics Models, Inc. at Amherst, MA, where she worked on model building, empirical analysis, and new product development on economic and demographic forecast models. Dr. Huaqun Li received her PhD in Public Policy Analysis from George Mason University. Her primary research areas include regional economic development, regional inequality, entrepreneurship and new firms, as well as regional development in China. Huaqun lives in Fairfax, Virginia. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, hiking, and doing yoga. Written Works Details and Analysis of President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Proposal March 23, 2023 Details and Analysis of a Tax Reform Plan for Growth and Opportunity February 14, 2023 Permanent 100 Percent Bonus Depreciation Even More Important When Inflation Is Elevated October 27, 2022 The Economic, Revenue, and Distributional Effects of Permanent 100 Percent Bonus Depreciation August 30, 2022 Details & Analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act Tax Provisions August 10, 2022 Carbon Taxes and the Future of Green Tax Reform June 21, 2022 House Build Back Better Act: Details & Analysis of Tax Provisions in the Budget Reconciliation Bill December 2, 2021 Temporary Policies Complicate the Child Tax Credit’s Future September 3, 2021 Comparing Three Financing Options for President Biden’s Spending Proposals August 3, 2021 Dynamic Scoring of Infrastructure Spending Proposals Offsets Small Portion of the Cost July 20, 2021 See Full List Back to Staff Page