title: Cost of tax-exempt health benefits in 1998.
abstract: The tax expenditure for health benefits is the amount of revenues that the federal government forgoes by exempting the following from the federal income and Social Security taxes: (1) employer health benefits contribution, (2) health spending under flexible spending plans, and (3) the tax deduction for health expenses. The health tax expenditure was $111.2 billion in 1998. This figure varied from $2,357 per family among those with annual incomes of $100,000 or more to $71 per family among those with annual incomes of less than $15,000. Families with incomes of $100,000 or more (10 percent of the population) accounted for 23.6 percent of all tax expenditures.
authors: Lewin Group, Fairfax, VA, USA.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Sheils
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Hogan
mesh_terms: D005382:Financing, Personal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007183:Income Tax / Q000191:economics*; D019464:Tax Exemption; D014481:United States