Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The nonpartisan CRS estimates that under the tax law passed last year, the effective tax rate on debt-financed corporate investment in equipment is now negative 21% and, on intangible assets like AI models, it is negative 59%. 8/17 110
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The net result is the combined corporate- and individual-level taxes on normal corporate profits are much lower on capital investments than investments in labor under permanent expensing. Here is a simplified example. 6/17 100
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026(1) Expensing an asset is like allowing businesses to pay *no* tax on all the so-called normal profits that asset produces. Normal capital income is heavily concentrated at the top. 2/17 100
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025JCT tables follow. (Prior chart was for 2027 and calculated from JCT tables.) 2/ 100
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025New JCT distributional estimates of proposed tax changes by the Senate Finance Committee. Compared to current law, the bill heavily skews benefits to the wealthy as a share of after-tax income. 1/ 240
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The President just effectively signed a statement that he is committing a crime, violating a criminal statute enacted with overwhelming bipartisan majorities (it passed 96-2 in the Senate). Here is the law and his post. 1/3 732145713
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Now R lawmakers are silent when the President – the most political actor of all! – is pressuring the IRS to revoke the tax exempt status of nonprofits he doesn’t like. 10/ 153
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025One of the recommendations from the bipartisan Senate Finance Committee report was that *anyone* with influence over whether and how tax exempts are reviewed and audited should be precluded from participating in political work, even when off-duty. 9/ 141
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The mass firings threaten to take us back to an IRS that was struggling to function even a few years ago. Call wait times skyrocketed when Congress cut IRS’s funding from 2010-2022 and then fell dramatically when Congress restored IRS funding to its historic levels. 3/4 100
Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Mass layoffs at the IRS will increase deficits. Every $1 spent on the IRS reduces deficits by $6. The return is even higher when resources are focused on addressing evasion and avoidance by the most wealthy. 5/5 010