FY2026-2035 · CBO February 2026 baseline

Repeal Individual AMT

Fully repeal individual AMT. After TCJA expires, would cost ~$450B over 10 years.

Ten-year deficit effect, conventional+$450.5Badds to the deficit
With macroeconomic feedback and debt service+$506.9BFRB/US-Lite (Federal Reserve calibrated)
Checked against

Published score +$450.0B; this estimate is 0.1% away (calibrated reference). Calibrated to reproduce $450B (CBO baseline) — agreement is by construction, not an independent test.

No out-of-sample band: no pre-registered row scores an AMT reform. The 44 pre-registered Tier 1 rows are the only tier that measures this model's accuracy, and none of them scores a policy of this kind.

Year by year

billions, conventional
Fiscal yearRevenueDeficit, conventionalMacro feedbackDebt serviceDeficit, dynamic
2026-$39.3B+$39.3B+$6.8B+$1.6B+$34.0B
2027-$40.5B+$40.5B+$7.9B+$3.2B+$35.8B
2028-$41.7B+$41.7B+$6.8B+$4.9B+$39.7B
2029-$42.9B+$42.9B+$5.3B+$6.6B+$44.2B
2030-$44.2B+$44.2B+$3.9B+$8.3B+$48.7B
2031-$45.6B+$45.6B+$2.8B+$10.2B+$52.9B
2032-$46.9B+$46.9B+$1.9B+$12.0B+$57.0B
2033-$48.3B+$48.3B+$1.3B+$14.0B+$61.0B
2034-$49.8B+$49.8B+$0.9B+$16.0B+$64.8B
2035-$51.3B+$51.3B+$0.6B+$18.0B+$68.7B

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Who pays

first year, by income group

The distribution engine cannot yet represent this kind of policy household by household (for example estate tax, tariffs, international or enforcement provisions). An all-zero table would look flat and be wrong, so none is shown.

Economic effects

difference from the CBO baseline
GDP, summed over the window+0.55percent-years
Jobs at the largest effect+72K
Deficit effect of the GDP change-$38.3Bmore tax collected
Deficit effect of interest on the debt+$94.7Bmore debt, more interest
Fiscal yearGDP levelJobsUnemployment10-year rateGDP change, deficitInterest, deficit
2026+0.098%+63K-0.05 pt+0.00 pt-$6.8B+$1.6B
2027+0.112%+72K-0.06 pt+0.01 pt-$7.9B+$3.2B
2028+0.098%+62K-0.05 pt+0.01 pt-$6.8B+$4.9B
2029+0.076%+49K-0.04 pt+0.02 pt-$5.3B+$6.6B
2030+0.056%+36K-0.03 pt+0.02 pt-$3.9B+$8.3B
2031+0.040%+25K-0.02 pt+0.03 pt-$2.8B+$10.2B
2032+0.028%+18K-0.01 pt+0.03 pt-$1.9B+$12.0B
2033+0.019%+12K-0.01 pt+0.04 pt-$1.3B+$14.0B
2034+0.013%+8K-0.01 pt+0.04 pt-$0.9B+$16.0B
2035+0.009%+6K-0.00 pt+0.05 pt-$0.6B+$18.0B

FRB/US-Lite (Federal Reserve calibrated). Demand effects fade over five to seven years as monetary policy responds; there is no supply-side channel. The dynamic score is the conventional score, plus the deficit effects of the GDP change and of interest on the debt: +$450.5B - $38.3B + $94.7B = +$506.9B.

Other scoring models

exploratory
ModelTen-year deficit effectMethod
CBO-Style+$450.5BStatic + ETI behavioral response + optional FRB/US dynamic feedback
TPC-Microsim PilotCannot score thisRepeal Individual AMT (AMTPolicy) does not map onto current microsim pilot reforms (income-tax rates, CTC, EITC, SALT, std deduction, AMT exemption).

No pilot model returned distributional output; the comparison is aggregate-only.

CBO-Style is the model behind the headline above. The TPC-style microsimulation is a pilot: where the two disagree, the gap tells you how much the answer depends on method. It is not an official range.

Limitations

Cite asWilse-Samson, Laurence. “Repeal Individual AMT.” Fiscal Policy Calculator, CBO February 2026 baseline, FY2026-2035. https://fiscal.lwilsesamson.com/explore/amt-repeal-individual