CRS: Cost of Extending Bush Tax Cuts = $5 Trillion

BNA has made available a Congressional Research Service report, The Bush Tax Cuts and the Economy (R41393), by Thomas L. Hungerford. The report states that the total cost of extending all of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts would be $5.048 trillion over the next decade, when taking into account the cost of indexing the alternative minimum tax and the cost of debt service [click on chart to enlarge]

In September, the CRS had estimated the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts as $2.8 trillion over ten years.

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