There are reasons for doubt. They start with technical matters: the effect of the changes on revenue and on saving and investment. Broader questions also arise. Is Biden’s approach to tax reform coherent? And can it be squared with one of America’s great strengths: its regard for profit-driven innovation and its willingness to reward and applaud success?
The president’s most arresting idea combines two changes to the taxation of investment income. At the moment the top rate of the capital-gains tax is 23.8%. Biden wants to almost double it, to 43.4%. He also proposes to abolish the so-called stepped-up basis at death. This longstanding treatment erases unrealized capital gains for tax purposes when the owner dies; assets pass to the heirs with their acquisition value (or “basis”) stepped up to current prices.
The two components are linked. Capital-gains tax is paid only when assets are sold, and owners can usually choose when that is. The higher the rate, the bigger the incentive to delay the sale and defer the tax. Stepped-up basis goes one better, eventually canceling any taxes owed. If stepped-up basis were left in place, the rate that maximizes proceeds from the tax would likely be less than 43.4%, because a rate this high gives too big an incentive to defer and avoid the tax. Scorers at Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation have estimated this revenue-maximizing rate to be as low as 28%. Abolishing stepped-up basis would push it higher, but it’s unclear by how much.
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