Cutting the US corporate tax rate (as in the 2017 tax bill) will raise median household wages/income by about $4,000 a year relative to baseline within a relatively short time.
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“a tax cut like this very conservatively will increase the median wage by about $4,000 a year over a relatively short time”
- Said on
- 11 October 2017 · Remarks as CEA chairman at The Hill's tax reform event at the Newseum, Washington DC; echoes the CEA's October 2017 report estimating $4,000-$9,000 household gains from cutting the corporate rate from 35% to 20%. Claim is relative to a no-tax-cut baseline.
- Source
- Council of Economic Advisers Chairman: Tax Cuts Could Increase Median Wage By About $4,000 · Washington Free Beacon
- Should come true
- No date given
- How sure they sounded
- very conservatively
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- EconomyPolitics
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- 3 of 5 · Central official claim about the wage effect of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for US households.
Outcome
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Inferred window: "a relatively short time" after the 2017 tax law, i.e. within roughly 3-5 years. The leading study of the TCJA (Chodorow-Reich, Zidar and Zwick, 2024) estimates long-run wage gains of only about $750 per worker per year, "an order of magnitude below" the $4,000-$9,000 the administration predicted.
- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/09/raise-corporate-tax-rates-no-cut-them-maybe-take-a-look-first/
- https://www.aeaweb.org/research/business-tax-cut-lessons
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