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HR 4085 115th Congress House

Tax Policy Transparency Act

Official title: To require the Joint Committee on Taxation to provide a distributional analysis, and analysis of effects on after-tax wage income, of major tax legislation.

Introduced: October 19, 2017 See on congress.gov
Taxation Congressional oversightEconomic performance and conditionsGovernment information and archivesIncome tax ratesWages and earnings
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Tax Policy Transparency Act

This bill requires the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to make publicly available an analysis of the effects of major tax legislation, including: (1) a distributional analysis, (2) a dynamic distributional after-tax wage income analysis, and (3) a written summary of the results of the analyses.

During the 10-year period after major tax legislation is enacted into law, the JCT must submit to Congress annual updates for the estimates included in the analyses.

"Major tax legislation" includes legislation for which the estimate provided by the JCT and the Congressional Budget Office under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 incorporates the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables (commonly known as dynamic scoring).

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4085: Tax Policy Transparency Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4085/
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"H.R. 4085: Tax Policy Transparency Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4085/.
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H.R. 4085, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4085/.
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