It shifts the aggregate demand curve by an amount equal to the initial change in investment times the multiplier. An increase in the investment tax credit, or a reduction in corporate income tax rates, will increase investment and shift the aggregate demand curve to the right. Real GDP and the price level will rise.
A reduction in the investment tax credit, or an increase in corporate income tax rates, will reduce investment and shift the aggregate demand curve to the left. Real GDP and the price level will fall. Investment also affects the long-run aggregate supply curve, since a change in the capital stock changes the potential level of real GDP.
We examined this earlier in the module on economic growth. Income taxes affect the consumption component of aggregate demand. An increase in income taxes reduces disposable personal income and thus reduces consumption but by less than the change in disposable personal income. That shifts the aggregate demand curve leftward by an amount equal to the initial change in consumption that the change in income taxes produces times the multiplier. A change in tax rates will change the value of the multiplier.
The reason is explained in another chapter. A reduction in income taxes increases disposable personal income, increases consumption but by less than the change in disposable personal income , and increases aggregate demand. Only some of the increase in disposable personal income will be used for consumption and the rest will be saved. Changes in transfer payments, like changes in income taxes, alter the disposable personal income of households and thus affect their consumption, which is a component of aggregate demand.
A change in transfer payments will thus shift the aggregate demand curve because it will affect consumption. Because consumption will change by less than the change in disposable personal income, a change in transfer payments of some amount will result in a smaller change in real GDP than would a change in government purchases of the same amount.
Table We see that expansionary policies have been chosen in response to recessionary gaps and that contractionary policies have been chosen in response to inflationary gaps.
Changes in government purchases and in taxes have been the primary tools of fiscal policy in the United States. Skip to main content. Module: Fiscal Policy. Search for:. Changes in Government Purchases One policy through which the government could seek to shift the aggregate demand curve is a change in government purchases. Changes in Business Taxes One of the first fiscal policy measures undertaken by the Kennedy administration in the s was an investment tax credit.
Changes in Income Taxes Income taxes affect the consumption component of aggregate demand. We show that growth rates over long periods of time in the United States have not changed in tandem with the massive changes in the structure and revenue yield of the tax system that have occurred. We also report findings from Piketty, Saez and Stantcheva that, across advanced countries, even large changes in the top marginal income tax rate over time do not appear to be strongly correlated with rates of growth.
Section IV explores empirical evidence on taxes and growth from studies of major income tax changes in the United States. Consistent with the discussion in Section III, the studies find little evidence that tax cuts or tax reform since have impacted the long-term growth rate significantly. The literature, which generally uses vector autoregression VAR models, finds that tax cuts that meet the exogeneity criteria raise short-term output and other economic activity.
The narrative literature does not speak to the long-term effects, though. Section VI discusses the results from the literature on simulation models, which has generated two main results. First, debt-financed tax cuts will tend to boost short-term growth as in standard Keynesian models and in the literature using the narrative approach , but also tend to reduce long-term growth, if they are financed eventually by higher taxes. Second, revenue-neutral income tax reform can provide a modest boost to economic growth.
William G. Samwick Dartmouth College. Abstract This paper examines how changes to the individual income tax affect long-term economic growth. Introduction Policy makers and researchers have long been interested in how potential changes to the personal income tax system affect the size of the overall economy. Related Books.
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How do flexible spending accounts for health care expenses work? What are health reimbursement arrangements and how do they work? How might the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance ESI be reformed? Taxes and Homeownership What are the tax benefits of homeownership?
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