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New Markets Tax Credits: The Next Tool for Community Development Financing
The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) has the potential to transform the financing of economic development in low-income communities much as the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has done for affordable rental housing development.
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Community perspective: is the NMTC making a difference in low-income communities?
Mr. Armistead has been an advocate for low-income communities for over 20 years and has extensive experience working with a wide network of community development practitioners. He has tapped that network, in addition to case studies of NMTC projects, in an effort to answer the question of whether this program is helping low-income communities.
Journal Article
Investor perspective: how to invest in NMTCs
Wells Fargo Bank has over $1 billion in its community investment portfolio and is one of the country?s leading investors in NMTC. This article is a practical analysis of how to target and underwrite NMTC investments.
Journal Article
The earned income tax credit at work
Journal Article
The new markets tax credit program: a midcourse assessment
Two leading scholars of community development analyze the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program?s origins in the economic boom of the 1990s and its implementation in a much different economic and political environment after 2000. The authors examine the program?s successes and failures and discuss prospects for improvement.
Discussion Paper
Evaluating the macroeconomic effects of a temporary investment tax credit
As part of a fiscal stimulus package, some members of Congress have recently proposed a temporary investment subsidy. This paper uses the neoclassical growth model to evaluate the likely macroeconomic effects of such a subsidy. The model predicts a 0.8 percentage point increase in output growth for the quarter in which the policy is implemented. In subsequent quarters, the output growth effects are negligible. As the subsidy ends, output growth falls by 1 percentage point before returning to its trend growth rate. While a permanent subsidy will lead to more capital deepening in the long ...
Working Paper
The household spending response to the 2003 tax cut: evidence from survey data
The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003 has been described as textbook fiscal stimulus. Using household survey data on the self-reported qualitative response to the tax cuts, we estimate that the boost to aggregate personal consumption expenditures from the child credit rebate and the reduction in withholdings raised the average level of real GDP in the second half of 2003 by 0.2 percent and by 0.3 percent in the first half of 2004. We also show that households in the survey were well aware of their tax cuts and tended to spend equally out of the child credit rebate and ...
Journal Article
Low Income Housing Tax Credits: strategies for year 15
As the Low Income Housing Tax Credit 15-year compliance period begins to expire on affordable housing projects across the country, the Wyndham Financial Group?s William S. Hettinger examines how organizations are addressing this issue and offers strategies for success.
Journal Article
Are state R&D tax credits constitutional? an economic perspective
This Economic Letter discusses how the unique economic nature of R&D may bear on the question of the constitutionality of state R&D tax credits. In particular, I discuss the conditions laid out by the U.S. Supreme Court for determining the constitutionality of a state tax credit and how economic research can play a critical role in assessing whether these conditions are met.
Journal Article
Noteworthy: housing: tax credit boosts sales to first-time homebuyers in Texas
The beleaguered Texas housing market has been getting some help from Washington's attempts to revive the economy. First-time homebuyers in the state are taking advantage of tax credits of as much as $8,000 provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.