Provides a discussion of the important tax changes affecting investment introduced in TRA'86. Concludes that the cost of capital innovations contributes to investment forecast innovations and that the effect of the cost of capital on equipment and structures investment is significant both...

In this paper, we estimate the effect of the tax preference for health insurance on health care spending using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys from 1996–2005. We use the fact that Social Security taxes are only levied on earnings below a statutory threshold to identify the...

Argues that economic analysis has much to offer decisionmakers in forming their judgments about tax fairness. Focuses on the question of distribution of tax burdens and government expenditures.

Reviews President Bush's proposal for comprehensive health care reform for access and cost containment while exploring the proposal to facilitate greater and less costly coverage of small employer groups. Concludes with observations regarding the policy debate of the proposals recommendations

On March 9th, President Bush signed the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002. The Act included a temporary increase in depreciation allowances for business spending on equipment and software (E&S) in the form of 30 percent partial expensing. In this paper we explore the impact of the...

Auerbach demonstrated that inflation can lead to interasset distortions, with the negative effects of higher inflation unambiguously declining with asset life in the case of geometric economic and tax depreciation. We show that, when tax depreciation is straight-line, higher inflation can have...

Reducing the double tax on corporate income has an ambiguous effect on marginal effective tax rates. It depends on the specifics of the policy, the extent of debt finance, whether one adopts the new or the old view of dividend taxes, the identity of the marginal investor, the importance of...