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The AMT: Historical Data and Projections

Katherine Lim & Jeffrey Rohaly have posted The Individual Alternative Minimum Tax: Historical Data and Projections on the Tax Policy Center website.  Here is the abstract:

The AMT, which originally targeted high-income taxpayers, requires annual legislation to prevent it from affecting millions of middle-income individuals each year. There are two primary reasons for the AMT's broadening impact; its parameters are not indexed for inflation and the 2001-2006 tax cuts reduced regular tax liability without changing AMT liability. In 2009, four million taxpayers will pay $33.5 billion in AMT, but without congressional action that number will rise to 27 million owing $102 billion in 2010. This paper describes the AMT and provides TPC's latest estimates of AMT coverage, revenue, and distribution.


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