The biggest moneyspinner by far has been the abolition of the dividend tax-credit for pension schemes in his first budget.
The March 17th budget went further, providing a generous tax-credit, including help with child care, for low-earning parents.
Most surprising is the lack of support from the insurance industry, which could sell millions of new policies under Goodman's tax-credit plan.
Yet Coldwell Banker's Gillespie says that focusing only on these statistics is misleading, and that observers shouldn't be surprised by the post-tax-credit swoon.
America's housing market may yet lurch down again as foreclosures rise, high unemployment takes its toll and a temporary home-buyers' tax-credit ends (see article).
Existing home sales rose 5.9% in November, selling at the highest rate since November, 2009 (when there was a tax-credit incentive in place for first-time home-buyers).
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Romney has recently floated the idea of an individual-deduction cap, the savings from which could easily fund a universal health insurance tax-credit system, depending on how the cap was structured.
The expiration of the tax-credit may lead to a lag in purchases for the following months, and any rebound in prices may bring out some housing inventory hiding in the shadows of big bank balance sheets.
Tax credits - including child tax credit and working tax credit - will be uprated by 1% for three years from April 2013, apart from the basic and 30-hour elements where the uprating will not apply until 2014.
Millions of Americans -- including more than 2 million African American families -- are better off thanks to our extension of the child care tax credit and the earned income tax credit -- (applause) -- because nobody who works hard in America should be poor in America.
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Another sublimely uncomplicated scam involved the earned-income tax credit (EITC), which gives a tax credit to low-income families for each of their children.
The two tax credits in the CBO list--the EITC and the child tax credit--differ from the exclusions, deductions and differential rates in that they are available only to taxpayers with relatively low incomes.
This is the main reason recent tax credit-driven solutions, such as the New Markets Tax Credit and the Renewable Energy Tax Credit have failed to stimulate the growth in the areas they have targeted.
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Nonetheless, the housing market continues to be a troubling factor in many areas of the country (Florida, for example), and the expiration of the first-time homebuyers' tax credit--which boosted home sales earlier this year--could cause a further temporary slowdown in housing, says Brookings' Wial.
In addition, he urged lawmakers to raise the current cap on employment-based visas, or "green cards, " and he called on Congress to renew the now-expired research and development tax credit--something that business groups such as the National Association of Manufacturers and U.S. Chamber of Commerce have also pushed for.
And that tax-free versus tax credit bonds would too.
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He said there were already exemptions to the cap - such as families in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Working Tax Credit - and outlined "transitional arrangements" to minimise the impact.
And his advisers are keen on bringing America's earned-income tax credit to Britain, replacing in-work welfare benefits with tax breaks.
Miller points to the first-time home buyer tax credit of 2009-2010, when there was a surge in activity up until its expiration.
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Until 2001 most states limited their estate tax to the "state death tax credit"--a part of the federal estate tax ceded to the states.
The dual strategy of raising the minimum wage and extending the earned-income tax credit was central to America's anti-poverty fight when Mr Reich was labour secretary.
Then, thanks to federal stimulus efforts and short-lived programs like the tax credit for first-time home buyers, there were signs of demand recovery in the first half of 2010.
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He sent it back to the Legislature with new wording that called for the property-tax credit.
The only downside is that the PowerShares fund is somewhat hostage to the political battle in the US Congress to extend production-tax credit.
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For the younger group, one cause of discouragement is the earned-income tax credit (EITC), America's main anti-poverty tool, which tops up poorer people's pay and thus rewards work.
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Then, there is the 51-cent tax credit paid to blenders of the fuel and a 54-cent tariff on imported ethanol to keep cheaper foreign producers out of the market.
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, signed a letter saying they would not support a bill that does not include at least a partially refundable child tax credit -- something conservatives, including Thomas, opposed.
At present, for example, all families with dependent children receive child benefit, and some quite well-off ones also get extra help through the child-tax credit, which is mainly for poorer families.
There is a competing House bill which would double the tax credit -- and therefore, the cost -- of the bill, but which would also apply to hedge funds and the like.
The Solar Energy Industries Association is seeking an eight year extension of the tax credit--their top legislative priority--and they say that the majority of lawmakers in both the House and Senate support the extension.
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