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The Act specifies that 37% of the package is to be devoted to tax incentives equaling $288 billion and $144 billion, or 18%, is allocated to state and local fiscal relief (more than 90% of the state aid is going to Medicaid and education).
20 sty 2022 · When people refer to President Obama's tax cuts, they generally refer to the $858 billion tax cut deal signed in 2010. It extended the Bush tax cuts through 2012 and unemployment benefits through 2011. It cut payroll taxes by two percentage points, adding $112 billion to workers' spendable income.
31 gru 2021 · It cut taxes by $288 billion and earmarked $224 billion in extended unemployment benefits, education, and health care spending. Also, the Act created jobs by allocating $275 billion in federal contracts, grants, and loans.
President Obama has passed wide-ranging tax relief for working families and small businesses — the drivers of economic growth — while also ending tax cuts for the top 2 percent highest-income Americans.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) was enacted and passed by the United States Congress on January 1, 2013, and was signed into law by US President Barack Obama the next day. ATRA gave permanence to the lower rates of much of the "Bush tax cuts".
14 kwi 2016 · From the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) for working families, to the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) for college tuition, President Obama expanded tax credits that provide about 24 million working and middle-class families a year a tax cut of about $1,000.
Obama has proposed a tax plan which includes tax credits to lower the amount of taxes paid. It is argued that the typical middle-class family would receive over $1,000 in tax relief, with tax payments that are 20% lower than they faced under President Ronald Reagan.