House Democrats on Monday passed tax increase legislation that reduces some of its effects President Biden
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The text of the bill released Monday by the House Ways and Means Committee includes a variety of tax increases aimed at wealthy individuals and corporations in an effort to help pay $ 3.5 trillion in spending and tax cuts in areas such as child care, climate and health care.
But in many ways, he is not as aggressive in raising taxes as Biden has proposed, provoking criticism from progressive groups.
“They have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to address the unfair and unfair treatment the rich receive in the tax code, and the committee has refused to do so,” said Erica Payne, president and founder of Patriotic Millionaires.
There are several areas where the House Democrats ’proposal doesn’t go as far in raising taxes on businesses and the rich as Biden had proposed earlier this year.
The Forms and Means Committee would raise the corporate tax rate for revenues in excess of $ 5 million from 21% to 26.5%, while Biden had called for a corporate tax rate of 28%.
The committee called for the capital gains rate to be increased from 20% to 25%, while Biden proposed to increase it to match the higher tax rate on wage income. And the committee’s bill doesn’t include a proposal Biden offers to tax capital gains on death.
In addition, the committee’s proposal limits, but does not completely eliminate, the reduction in reported interest tax that benefit mutual fund managers, while Biden would eliminate the preference. And the committee’s proposal would not raise the minimum foreign income tax of U.S. companies like Biden as much.
House Democrats released their bill months after Biden introduced his proposals, and his move seems to take into account some of the moderate Democrats’ criticism of the president’s plans. Biden’s proposals on the corporate tax rate, capital gains and international tax changes have raised concerns for moderates.
There are also places where the committee’s bill coincides with Biden’s plan or goes beyond its scope. For example, Biden proposed raising the higher individual tax rate from 37% to 39.6%. The Forms and Means Committee does so and would also impose a 3% surcharge on people’s incomes above $ 5 million. Both Biden and the Forms and Means Committee also proposed providing the IRS with an additional $ 80 billion to strengthen tax enforcement and upgrade technology.
Chairman of the Committee Richard Neal
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Deputy Press Secretary of the White House Karine Jean-Pierre
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Left-leaning groups were less positive.
Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute for Fiscal and Tax Policy, said the committee’s proposal would be a “huge improvement” over the current tax code. But he also said that many incomes of very rich people would not be taxed at all, because the committee did not adopt Biden’s proposal to tax capital gains on death or take similar measures.
“The proposed ways and means does not reach the president in many respects and would leave some huge problems in the tax code,” he said.
Senate Democrats have been working on their own fiscal proposals and could end up taking a different approach to capital gains than their House counterparts. Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden
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“It’s important to address the fact that multimillion-dollar heirs never pay taxes on billions in earnings on shares,” Wyden said in a statement.
The groups also urge the Forms and Means Committee to go further in raising the rate of a minimum U.S. corporate income tax in order to reduce the gap between the rates paid by companies. companies for their domestic and foreign profits. The committee has proposed an approximate rate of 16.5 per cent, compared to the administration’s 21 per cent proposal.
“The Ways and Means draft lost the opportunity to bridge the gap between domestic and foreign profits,” said Ryan Gurule, policy director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, whose composition includes many organizations. progressives. “Equalizing these rates increases incentives to invest in the United States.”
While progressives argue that House Democrats are not going far enough to raise taxes on rich people and corporations, the business community and conservatives are attacking the Forms and Means Committee’s bill from the angle opposed, arguing that raising the corporate tax would hurt the US. economy.
“Any increase in the competitive corporate rate in the United States would place our country even further behind global competitors such as China – and bring devastating consequences for American workers, ”a group of companies and industry groups called the RATE Coalition said in a statement.
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the Forms and Means Committee section focused on tax increases would raise nearly $ 2.1 trillion in ten years. This estimate does not take into account the provision of IRS funding. The Congressional Budget Office previously estimated that the similar Biden IRS proposal would raise about $ 200 billion.
A document outlining the Committee on Manners and Means’ plans released Sunday said Democrats would cover the cost of the remaining $ 3.5 trillion in spending through savings from changes in drug and drug prices. economic growth generated by its spending package.
It remains to be seen how the tax proposals will change as the spending package goes through Congress. Nearly all House Democrats and all Senate Democrats will have to vote for the spending bill to pass, which means small groups of lawmakers have the ability to influence legislation.
One change Democrats plan to make to the bill is to add some kind of change to the $ 10,000 state and local tax deduction (SALT) limit. – a limit that is very unpleasant for many lawmakers in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, and California. But undoing the SALT limit is expensive, so lawmakers may need to find ways to increase additional revenue to offset the cost of any changes to the deduction limit.
“If the intention is to add SALT relief to this package, it is clear that they will have to raise a lot more revenue because they certainly cannot reduce investments,” said Frank Clemente, executive director of the progressive group Americans for Tax Equity.