1、 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i The Distribution of the Tax Policy Changes in H.R. 1 and the Senates Tax Cuts and Jobs Act nae redacted Specialist in Public Finance nae redacted Research Assistant November 21, 2017 Distributional analysis can be used to
2、 illustrate how changes in tax policy would affect the economic well-being of taxpayers. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) regularly prepares distributional analyses of major tax proposals. On November 14, 2017, the JCT released a distributional analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1). H.
3、R. 1 passed a vote in the House on November 16, 2017. The JCT has also released a distributional analysis of the Senates version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. When the goal of distributional analysis is to look at taxpayers economic well-being, one useful metric is the percentage change in after-tax
4、 income. Figure 1 illustrates the estimated percentage change in after-tax income that would result from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the House proposal). Several observations can be made examining the distribution in Figure 1, including the following: H.R. 1 would have the largest benefits in 2019 an
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