<p>Heritage Fellow: Most Expired 2017 Tax Provisions Are Unwarranted</p>

Heritage Fellow: Most Expired 2017 Tax Provisions Are Unwarranted

Heritage Foundation

Tax preferences distort the economy by picking winners and losers, encourage taxpayers to make suboptimal economic decisions, and make the economy less efficient, and most of the tax provisions that expired in 2017 are unwarranted, David R. Burton of the Heritage Foundation said at a March 14 House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee hearing.

<p>Tax preferences distort the economy by picking winners and losers, encourage taxpayers to make suboptimal economic decisions, and make the economy less efficient, and most of the tax provisions that expired in 2017 are unwarranted, David R. Burton of the Heritage Foundation said at a March 14 House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee hearing.</p>