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                             New Research

     U  1ION                 Provides More Reasons to Repeal

                             the Medical Device Tax

FISCAL
FACT                        Alec  Fornwalt   Nicole Kaeding
No. 599                      Policy Analyst  Director of Special Projects
July 2018

                             Key Findings

                                *  The medical device tax is a 2.3 percent excise tax on the value of medical
                                   devices sold domestically. The tax was packaged in the Affordable Care Act
                                   to help cover its cost.

                                *  The medical device tax fails most tests for good policy and is fundamentally
                                   flawed in its structure.

                                *  New  research shows  that many of the predicted negative effects from the
                                   medical device tax occurred, both to the companies and to consumers.

                                *  In 2013, the medical device tax lowered industry research and development
                                   spending by $34  million.

                                *  The tax is responsible for the loss of approximately 21,800 jobs from 2013 to
                                   2015.

                                *  The tax has been delayed by Congress  twice, but the tax still exists. While
                                   full repeal is difficult due to federal revenue constraints, ideally, suspensions
                                   would exist for longer than two-year intervals.



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