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1 Effects of the 2017 Tax Act on Income Accruing to Foreign Investors [1] (April 18, 2018)

handle is hein.congrec/cbomayaa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Keith Hall, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 April 18, 2018 Honorable Chris Van Hollen United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Re: Effects of the 2017 Tax Act on Income Accruing to Foreign Investors Dear Senator: This letter responds to the request from your staff to provide supplemental information about effects of Public Law 115-97, referred to here as the 2017 tax act. Your staff asked questions about how that act will affect gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national product (GNP) differently in real terms (that is, after adjustments to remove the effects of inflation). GNP differs from GDP by including the income that U.S. residents earn from abroad and excluding the income that nonresidents earn from domestic sources; it is therefore a better measure of the income available to U.S. residents. Because, according to CBO's projections, the act reduces the amount of net foreign income earned by U.S. residents, it increases real GNP less than it increases real GDP. The ratio of those two effects can be used to split the effect on real GDP into the share accruing to U.S residents and the share accruing to foreign investors. Last week, CBO reported that the tax act is estimated to raise real GDP by 0.5 percent and real GNP by 0.1 percent in 2028.1 Thus, roughly 80 percent, or (1-0. 1/0.5)* 100, of the additional real income that year resulting from the increased economic activity engendered by the tax act will accrue to foreign investors, as CBO confirmed to your staff last week. There are two caveats to that estimate: The calculation used the ratio of two numbers that were rounded to a single decimal. Using more precise estimates of the real effects on GDP and GNP, which CBO had not previously published, yields 71 percent for the share of the increase in real GDP accruing to foreign investors in 2028 (see Table 1). 1 See Congressional Budget Office, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028 (April 2018), Table B-2, www.cbo.gov/publication/53651. www.cbo.gov

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