President Trump’s April tax proposal, centered around a 15 percent business tax rate, was problematic for a number of reasons, as Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center points out in a new blog post: "It could add more than $8 trillion to the federal debt over the next decade; would be very regressive, distributing half its benefits to the highest income one percent of households; and it would distort economic incentives.”
But as Gleckman’s Tax Policy Center colleague Jim Nunns models out in a new report, it is still possible to construct a tax plan that includes a 15 percent corporate rate but doesn’t carry the same downsides in terms of federal revenue, distributional effects or economic impact. Nunns’ neutral tax plan does involve trade-offs, of course, like the creation of a 7.5 percent business-level consumption tax. You can read Nunns’ full report here or scan the table below to get a broad overview of how it gets to revenue neutrality.
