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Sustaining Progressivity In The Budget Process: A Commentary On Gale & (And) Orszag's An Economic Assessment Of Tax Policy In The Bush Administration, 2001-2004 The State Of Federal Income Taxation Symposium: Rates, Progressivity, And Budget Processes, Linda Sugin
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This Commentary proposes the adoption of pay-go procedural rules for tax lawmaking that favor tax cuts that decrease income inequality, in response to biases in distributional tables and distortions in the political process. It suggests that the failure to use present value analysis in the budget process has had unfortunate, unintended consequences, in particular, a congressional preference for a prepaid-type consumption tax. This Commentary argues that efforts to index the Alternative Minimum Tax (the "AMT") should not deflect attention from the AMT's most fundamental distributional problem-its failure to treat dividends and capital gains as preference items. It suggests that there …
The Case For Retaining The Corporate Amt, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
The Case For Retaining The Corporate Amt, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
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PROFESSORS Chorvat and Knoll present us with a strong argument for repealing the corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT). In 2001, repeal was recommended by the Joint Committee on Taxation as part of their simplification study, endorsed by the ABA/AICPA/TEI tax simplification project, and included in a bill passed by the House of Representatives. Since this issue is likely to arise again, it seems worthwhile to review the arguments raised by Chorvat and Knoll. Upon review, none of these arguments seem particularly persuasive; at best, they make a case for reforming the corporate AMT, not for repealing it. On the other …