Anonymous ID: 6d4e30 March 12, 2024, 12:18 p.m. No.20557992   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/biden-budget-2025-tax-proposals/

Last week, President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address presented a vision of higher taxes for American businesses and high earners combined with carveouts, credits, and more complex rules for taxpayers at all income levels. On Monday, the president released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2025 outlining how the White House would implement the president’s tax

vision, amounting to a gross tax hike exceeding $5.1 trillion over 10 years.

 

Rather than aiming for a simpler tax code that broadly encourages investment, saving, and work in the United States, the president has promised higher taxes that would decrease economic output and incomes, reduce U.S. competitiveness, and further complicate the tax code.

 

While the Biden budget claims to reduce deficits as a share of the economy over the next decade, that claim is based on several unrealistic assumptions, including:

 

No extension of the individual and estate tax

cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that are set to expire at the end of 2025, despite signaling interest in extending the tax cuts for people earning under $400,000, which would cost at least $1.4 trillion over the 10-year budget window

No extension of the administration’s proposed expansion of the child tax credit beyond 2025, which would cost more than $1 trillion over the budget window

Economic growth well in excess of what is forecast by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 

The FY 2025 Biden budget includes the following major changes, beginning in 2024 unless otherwise noted:…