With three decades of recognized leadership and influence in U.S. economic policy, the ACCF interacts on a daily basis with policymakers, the media and interest groups on issues of importance to investors, the business community and the U.S. economy.
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Posted on December 12th, 2010
As the U.S. continues it’s slow economic recovery (GDP growth was only 2.5% in the third quarter of 2010 and unemployment has remained at 9.6% for the past several quarters) policymakers need to understand the potential impact of EPA’s GHG reduction mandates which go into effect in 2011. The ACCF’s Special Report addresses [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2010
The taxation of capital gains is a perennial issue in tax policy. One critical aspect for understanding the overall effects of capital gains taxation is how these taxes affect entrepreneurs. While many analyses focus on the disincentive effects created by capital gains taxes for investors in large corporations, these disincentives may be even [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2010
The Republican Staff of the Joint Economic Committee comments about the rationale for low capital gains tax rates.
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Posted on September 21st, 2010
This paper assesses the macroeconomic effects of changes in capital gains tax rates for individuals, with estimates from simulations with the Sinai-Boston (SB) large-scale macroeconometric model of the U.S. economy. The Model is used in simulating reductions, and increases, in capital gains taxation starting in 2011 and extending to 2016, relative to the [...]
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