Do Tax Incentives for Investment Work?

Authors

Murray L. Weidenbaum, Washington University in St Louis

Files

Publication Date

6-1-1986

Series Information

Contemporary Issues Series 20

Publisher

Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130

Description

This paper attempts to rebut the negative "charges" against tax incentives and argues that tax incentives have provided a substantial benefit to the American economy and that the tax payments of many companies have been largely underestimated.

Keywords

Taxes, Incentives, Investment, Capital Spending, Jobs, Tax Breaks

Disciplines

Economics | Public Policy

Comments

The Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), 1975-2001, is the predecessor of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Permanent URL: http://dx.doi/org/10.7936/K76T0JS9

DOI

doi:10.7936/K76T0JS9

Recommended Citation

Weidenbaum, Murray L., "Do Tax Incentives for Investment Work?", Contemporary Issues Series 20, 1986, doi:10.7936/K76T0JS9.
Murray Weidenbaum Publications, https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mlw_papers/11.