Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the expiration of the Bush income tax rates (i.e., returning to Clinton-era rates) would have affected higher income families more than lower income families. The Bush tax cuts reduced income taxes for those earning over $1 million by $110,000 per year on average during the 2004–2012 ...
The tax cuts enacted by this legislation were retroactive to January 1, 2003, and first applied to taxes filed for the 2003 tax year. These individual rate reductions are scheduled to sunset on January 1, 2011, along with the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 unless further legislation is enacted to extend or make ...
Collectively, the Bush tax cuts reduced federal individual tax rates to their lowest level since World War II, and government revenue as a share of gross domestic product declined from 20.9% in 2000 to 16.3% in 2004. [10] A 2012 Congressional Budget Office analysis found that the tax cut reduced federal tax receipts by $1.2 trillion over ten ...
TCJA permanently cut the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, but other tax cuts aimed at business investment have started to expire. ... which made most of the Bush tax cuts ...
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans should be allowed to expire this year in order to narrow the federal government's deficit. The New York ...
A series of tax cuts throughout the 1920s, however, would take those rates down to some of the lowest percentages in history. It all started with the Revenue Act of 1921, which sent the top tax ...
The top marginal tax rate on income of 39.6%, provided for under the expiration of the 2001 portion of the Bush tax cuts, was retained. This was an increase from the 2003–2012 rate of 35%. [3] The top marginal tax rate on long-term capital gains of 20%, provided for under the expiration of the 2003 portion of the Bush tax cuts, was retained.
Between 2001 and 2003, the Bush administration instituted a federal tax cut for all taxpayers. Among other changes, the lowest income tax rate decreased from 15% to 10%, the 27% rate went to 25%, the 30% rate went to 28%, the 35% rate went to 33%, and the top marginal tax rate went from 39.6% to 35%. [8]