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Tax Policy Center writings cover a wide range of tax issues in many forms, ranging from research reports in national journals and policy briefs of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution to op eds in leading newspapers and testimony at Congressional hearings. The TPC also publishes its own products: Issues and Options policy briefs, Tax Policy Discussion Papers, and regular columns in Tax Notes magazine.

Featured Articles

The Future of Long-Term Care: What Is Its Place in the Health Reform Debate? More than 10 million Americans require long-term care supports and services. Yet the system for delivering and paying for this assistance is deeply flawed. While most of the frail elderly and those with disabilities prefer assistance at home, many must live in nursing homes to receive Medicaid benefits, care coordination for those with multiple chronic illnesses is poor, and the system for financing care impoverishes many middle-income families. The national health reform debate allows policymakers to reconsider long-term care as well. This paper assesses proposals to restructure the delivery and financing of long-term care services.

Extending the EITC to Noncustodial Parents: Potential Impacts and Design Considerations This paper examines the noncustodial parent earned income tax credit (NCP EITC), a new type of credit recently enacted in New York and Washington, D.C. and proposed by Senator Bayh and then-Senator Obama in 2007. The NCP EITC offers an earned income tax credit to low-income noncustodial parents who work and pay their full child support. This paper describes the rationale for this policy and provides national estimates of the benefits and costs of an NCP EITC under three alternative policy scenarios. It also discusses several key design and implementation issues.

Recent Publications

Who Pays No Income Tax? (July 2, 2009)
Changes to the Tax Exclusion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums: A Potential Source of Financing for Health Reform (June 26, 2009)
An Update on the Economic Crisis and the Fiscal Crisis: 2009 and Beyond (June 25, 2009)
Do We Need a Value-Added Tax to Solve Our Long-Run Budget Problems? (June 23, 2009)
The Future of Long-Term Care: What Is Its Place in the Health Reform Debate? (June 15, 2009)
Extending the EITC to Noncustodial Parents: Potential Impacts and Design Considerations (June 12, 2009)
Beyond the Storm: New Reforms for 401(k) Plans (June 11, 2009)
Different Way to Pay for Health Reform (May 28, 2009)

Most Requested Publications from the Last 30 Days

Tax Stimulus Report Card: Conference Bill (February 13, 2009)
The Economic Crisis and the Fiscal Crisis: 2009 and Beyond (February 19, 2009)
Different Way to Pay for Health Reform (May 28, 2009)
The Stimulus Package (HR1) and Low-Income Families (April 8, 2009)
An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans: Executive Summary - Revised September 15, 2008 (September 15, 2008)
Tax Proposals in the 2010 Budget (March 16, 2009)
The Future of Long-Term Care: What Is Its Place in the Health Reform Debate? (June 15, 2009)
Financing Health Care Reform: Before the Senate Committee on Finance (May 12, 2009)