Increased Pass-Through Business Tax Break Would Worsen Inequality Without Boosting Growth

Increased Pass-Through Business Tax Break Would Worsen Inequality Without Boosting Growth

House of Reps Wing from National Archives. Pacamah, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Juan Montecino, Mary Hansen, Aina Puig, Ignacio González, and Selin Secil Akin / Inequality.org House Republicans’ tax plan would expand a tax break in the 2017 tax reform for “pass-through” businesses that has overwhelmingly benefited high earners. “Pass-throughs” are entities structured so that profits are not tax…