[National Public Radio (NPR)]Urban Institute Senior Fellow and former Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis, Len Burman, expounds upon the earned income tax credit (EITC) as he recounts his experiences with the confusing EITC while helping a single mother with her taxes....
As tax bills go through Congress, Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle describes how tax provisions can be targeted effectively and how legitimate tax policy principles be maintained, in spite of wide disagreement over the exact shape of an ideal tax system.
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle explains why it makes sense to extend the charitable deduction to the time of filing a tax return, in much the same way as applies to deposits to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and to certain pensions of self-employed persons (Keogh plans).
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle describes some concerns with social tax expenditures: they almost always violate principles of budget and tax policy; they lack transparency; the IRS lacks the infrastructure to monitor such expenditures, and they often result in unnecessary complication and...
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle offers retiring Senator Moynihan a suggestion for one last bill to propose: a simple requirement that the poor and middle class should pay no higher tax rate on their next dollar of income earned than do the rich. If they do, then tax and expenditure authorities...
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle examines how the nation turned from a period of significant fiscal slack to one in which concern over deficits ruled federal policymaking for more than two decades, and why presidential candidates today feel so constrained from proposing major policy shifts despite...
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle gives the Treasury Department tips on how to make the most of their final months before the 2000 election and prepare the Treasury for the future.
Tax Complexity and the Working Poor
[National Public Radio (NPR)]Urban Institute Senior Fellow and former Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis, Len Burman, expounds upon the earned income tax credit (EITC) as he recounts his experiences with the confusing EITC while helping a single mother with her taxes....
Opportunities in the Tax Bill
Amending a Chairman's Mark While Recognizing Tax Policy Principles
As tax bills go through Congress, Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle describes how tax provisions can be targeted effectively and how legitimate tax policy principles be maintained, in spite of wide disagreement over the exact shape of an ideal tax system.
An Option to Increase Charitable Giving and Reduce Current Taxes
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle explains why it makes sense to extend the charitable deduction to the time of filing a tax return, in much the same way as applies to deposits to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and to certain pensions of self-employed persons (Keogh plans).
"Greenspanspeak" on Taxes
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle offers his interpretation of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspans comments supporting a tax cut.
Summers on Social Tax Expenditures (Part 2 of 2)
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle describes some concerns with social tax expenditures: they almost always violate principles of budget and tax policy; they lack transparency; the IRS lacks the infrastructure to monitor such expenditures, and they often result in unnecessary complication and...
Private Pension Reform
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle describes the forces for private pension reform.
Moynihan's Last Senatorial Hurray?
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle offers retiring Senator Moynihan a suggestion for one last bill to propose: a simple requirement that the poor and middle class should pay no higher tax rate on their next dollar of income earned than do the rich. If they do, then tax and expenditure authorities...
Fiscal Slack (Part 2 of 2)
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle examines how the nation turned from a period of significant fiscal slack to one in which concern over deficits ruled federal policymaking for more than two decades, and why presidential candidates today feel so constrained from proposing major policy shifts despite...
Summers' Time: Preparing Treasury for the Future (Part 5 of 5)
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle gives the Treasury Department tips on how to make the most of their final months before the 2000 election and prepare the Treasury for the future.