exempted from the tax, since the fact that future sales will be subject to the tax will lower the price of stocks sold in the …

package, was a first-time homebuyer tax credit. The tax credit gave people buying their first home, or who had not been … homeowners for at least three years, a tax credit equal to 10 percent of the purchase price of the home, up to $8,000. The … impact of the homebuyer credit. The first part produces a set of calculations of the amount of wealth transferred to sellers …

There are many economists who argue that temporary tax cuts, like those in the 2009 stimulus and the ones proposed by … President Obama last week, have no impact on the economy. They argue that people will save a temporary tax credit rather than … additional spending, or, alternatively, whether it raised personal savings by more than one dollar. This paper shows that there …

about outcomes that they consider fair. This puts liberals in the position of seeming to want to tax the winners to help the …

On January 1, the maximum amount of annual earnings subject to the Social Security tax – a.k.a. the payroll tax cap … Social Security payroll tax rate than those who make more. To help alleviate Social Security’s long-term budget shortfall …

investment banks who qualify to borrow through the special lending facilities created in the last year by the Federal Reserve …