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This paper examines various factors that affect estimates made by CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the budgetary savings from tax compliance proposals.
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CBO released a paper calculating hospitals’ profit margins in 2025 under several illustrative scenarios. Although hospitals could face greater financial pressure, the evidence was not sufficient to assess how hospitals might respond.
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This working paper finds evidence for smaller short-term effects on output and employment from tax changes during times of higher unemployment.
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How does CBO estimate increases in hurricane damage between now and 2075? This working paper documents the analysis underlying CBO’s report Potential Increases in Hurricane Damage in the United States: Implications for the Federal Budget.
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This paper describes an approach to modeling U.S. production of energy from shale resources and the outlook for that production. Production is insensitive to the price of oil in the short run but quite responsive within two to three years.
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This paper considers alternative ways to privatize the U.S. Social Security system. It does so using a new rational-expectations simulation model based on the Auerbach and Kotlikoff (1987) model.
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Equivalence Scales, the Income Distribution, and Federal Taxes
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In this report, we examine the treatment of government in a national retail sales tax, with emphasis on three issues.
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Who Bears the Burden of the Corporate Tax (and Why)?: The Open Economy Case
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Privatizing Versus Prefunding Social Security in a Stochastic Economy