Vice President Kamala Harris is proposing to increase the standard tax deduction for small business startup costs tenfold as part of her broader economic agenda if she wins the White House this November, and economists are running the numbers on how much of an impact the plan might have on the U.S. economy.
"Unfortunately, it’s proposed in the context of a plan to impose significantly higher marginal tax rate on saving and investment, which would swamp any small improvements to the startup deduction." The Tax Foundation's report found that Harris's agenda as a whole, which includes raising top tax rates to among the highest in the developed world, would do more economic harm than good.
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