The “Cadillac Tax”: Driving Firms to Change Their Plans?

Jason Bram, Nicole Dussault and Maxim Pinkovskiy

No 20160229, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Since the 1940s, employers that provide health insurance for their employees can deduct the cost as a business expense, but the government does not treat the value of that coverage as taxable income. This exclusion of employer-provided health insurance from taxable income?$248 billion in 2013, according to the Congressional Budget Office?is a huge subsidy for health spending. Many economists cite the distortionary effects of this tax subsidy as an important reason for why U.S. health care spending accounts for such a large share of the economy and why spending historically has grown so rapidly. In this blog post, we focus on a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that is intended to chip away at this tax subsidy, the colloquially labelled ?Cadillac Tax? on the priciest employer-provided health insurance plans.

Keywords: Business Survey; Affordable Care Act; Cadillac Tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J00 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02-28
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