The Kauffman Foundation published a report in support of this analysis earlier this year, claiming the initiative would boost annual startup equity activity by 50 percent more than the annual revenue loss to the Treasury.

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An analysis by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation in 2009 showed that the cost of this achievement has been relatively modest and well within early projections of how much the state would have to spend to implement reform.

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