Effects of Extending Tax Cuts

The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal budget would begin to run a surplus by 2012 if tax cuts were allowed to expire. If the tax cuts were extended, the budget would continue to run deficits.

Effects of Extending Tax Cuts

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