May 10, 2022
Debates about corporate income tax cuts follow a familiar script. Republicans claim that rank-and-file workers benefit . Democrats argue that affluent shareholders reap the gains...
May 5, 2022
President Trump was afraid to tackle the dominant set of spending and tax issues facing the federal government. Ditto, so far, for President Biden. Under...
May 4, 2022
Lately, some state policymakers are exerting their authority to punish businesses in their state that disagree with certain social policies. What happens when these two goals clash with one another? Or when they conflict with the vital job of collecting sufficient tax revenue to operate government and balance a budget?
May 3, 2022
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin set off environmentalists last week when he said tax credits to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicle (EV) tax credits...
April 28, 2022
Among its many changes, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act substantially increased the share of federal income taxpayers taking the standard deduction, leaving fewer...
April 27, 2022
President Biden’s 2023 budget would replace the current 10 percent base erosion anti-avoidance tax (BEAT) on US subsidiaries of foreign corporations with a 15 percent...
April 25, 2022
A few Tax Policy Center staffers and I spend tax season volunteering for the IRS's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, providing free tax preparation...
April 28, 2022
As President Biden and congressional Democrats make another push to reach a compromise on a social spending, climate change, and tax bill, a key issue...
April 19, 2022
Just as state governors and legislators are figuring out how to spend their unexpected budget surpluses, global events could wipe out much of those gains...
April 18, 2022
The Internal Revenue Service has limped through yet another tax filing season, reduced to plugging staffing holes in customer service and returns processing by shifting...