A bill requiring the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to use dynamic economic modeling in addition to static economic modeling in the preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law.
Latest action (27 Jul 1998): Introduced
What this bill does
S. 2357 would require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to supplement their standard "static" revenue estimates with "dynamic" estimates when analyzing proposed changes to federal revenue law. Dynamic estimates would attempt to account for how taxpayers and businesses might change their behavior in response to a law, as well as broader macroeconomic feedback effects. This additional analysis would be required only for proposed changes that a static estimate shows would affect revenue by more than $100 million in any fiscal year. Any report using a dynamic estimate would also have to include the underlying static estimate and a written explanation of the economic, technical, and behavioral assumptions used in both.
The bill primarily affects the internal practices of CBO and JCT, the two nonpartisan offices that provide Congress with cost and revenue estimates for legislation. It would also affect how members of Congress and the public receive information about the fiscal effects of tax law changes, since additional modeling and disclosure would accompany qualifying estimates. The bill allows CBO and JCT to contract with universities or other organizations to help develop or perform this dynamic modeling, subject to available funding.
The bill was introduced by Senator John Ashcroft, with Senators Inhofe and Kyl as cosponsors, and referred jointly to the Senate Committees on the Budget and on Governmental Affairs under a special order allowing one committee to act while giving the other a limited window to act or be discharged. It was introduced on July 27, 1998, in the 105th Congress and did not receive a vote; no further action occurred before that Congress ended.
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Official summary
Expresses the sense of the Congress that it is necessary to ensure that the Congress is presented with reliable information from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation as to the dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects to changes in Federal law and the probable behavioral responses of taxpayers, businesses, and other parties to such changes. Requires the Joint Committee and CBO to prepare fiscal estimates of each proposed change in Federal revenue law on the basis of assumptions that estimate the probable behavioral responses of personal and business taxpayers and other relevant entities to such change and its dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects. Applies such requirement only to proposed changes that, pursuant to static fiscal estimates, have a fiscal impact exceeding $100 million in any fiscal year.
Common questions
- What does S. 2357 do?
- S. 2357 would require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to supplement their standard "static" revenue estimates with "dynamic" estimates when analyzing proposed changes to federal revenue law. Dynamic estimates would attempt to account for how taxpayers and businesses might change their behavior in response to a law, as well as broader macroeconomic feedback effects. This additional analysis would be required only for proposed changes that a static estimate shows would affect revenue by more than $100 million in any fiscal year. Any report using a dynamic estimate would also have to include the underlying static estimate and a written explanation of the economic, technical, and behavioral assumptions used in both. The bill primarily affects the internal practices of CBO and JCT, the two nonpartisan offices that provide Congress with cost and revenue estimates for legislation. It would also affect how members of Congress and the public receive information about the fiscal effects of tax law changes, since additional modeling and disclosure would accompany qualifying estimates. The bill allows CBO and JCT to contract with universities or other organizations to help develop or perform this dynamic modeling, subject to available funding. The bill was introduced by Senator John Ashcroft, with Senators Inhofe and Kyl as cosponsors, and referred jointly to the Senate Committees on the Budget and on Governmental Affairs under a special order allowing one committee to act while giving the other a limited window to act or be discharged. It was introduced on July 27, 1998, in the 105th Congress and did not receive a vote; no further action occurred before that Congress ended.
- Has S. 2357 become law?
- Not yet. As of 27 Jul 1998, S. 2357 is introduced.
- Who sponsored S. 2357?
- S. 2357 was sponsored by Sen. John Ashcroft [R-MO, 1995-2000] (Republican-MO), with 6 cosponsors.
- What's the latest action on S. 2357?
- Introduced (27 Jul 1998).
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