Tax-Proposal Scenarios

President Bush wants to tax health benefits paid by employers as income but would ease the impact on taxpayers by creating a $15,000 standard deduction for families ($7,500 for singles). Here are examples of how the proposal would effect three households earning $60,000 a year, depending how the families purchased health insurance.

Tax-Proposal Scenarios

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