Distributional analysis refers to the process of analyzing how resources, benefits, or outcomes are distributed among individuals or groups in a particular system or society. It looks at who gets what and how much, and examines the patterns and inequalities in the distribution.
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Detailed distributional analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center is still forthcoming, but Ernie Tedeschi, a private sector economist and veteran of the Obama Treasury Department, crunched some numbers using Tax Brain, an open source tax model from the right - leaning American Enterprise Institute's Open Source Policy Center.
Anyone in doubt about fairness should note that the administration chooses to exclude the estate tax from discussion when it considers fairness and is unwilling, as all previous Treasuries have been, to present a revenue and
distributional analysis of its plan.
Take a closer look at
that distributional analysis and you'll see the story is slightly more complex.
Still, I'm somewhat puzzled by Philip Blond's reported claim that asset - based welfare somehow supercedes the relevance of IFS - style «
distributional analysis».
It will certainly be possible to find people who say «
distributional analysis is not important and doesn't capture what is fair» (those are value judgements and political arguments) but I do not think you will find any neutral or independent academic voice who could disagree with either of these factual analytical points: (i) the overall pattern of overall public spending is progressive (ii) the distributional pattern of the CSR spending cuts is regressive.
The distributional analysis published today shows that the proportion of welfare and public services going to the poorest has been protected.
In
its distributional analysis, TPC includes the following federal taxes in its calculation of effective tax rates: individual and corporate income taxes; payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare; excise taxes; and the estate tax.
Many of the provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including individual tax cuts, expire in 2025 and therefore may lead to tax hikes in the future, according to
the Distributional Analysis of the Conference Agreement for the TCJA by the Tax Policy Center.