How much tax revenue does the Treasury lose by exempting employer-based benefits from households’ taxable income? $785.1 billion over the next five years, according to the latest estimate by the Joint Committee on Taxation.
To put that in perspective, Obamacare’s exchange premium tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies are reckoned to amount to $276 billion over the same period. So the exclusion of employer-based benefits from taxable income costs 2.8 times more than the Obamacare tax credits.
Read the entire article at NCPA's Health Policy Blog.
Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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