Tax Policy Center

2016 election

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The Long Strange Journey of Donald Trump and Partnership Taxes

In my many years of writing about tax policy, I have never seen anything quite like the ongoing affair of Donald Trump and business taxes...
September 20, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Donald Trump’s tax proposals could double the trade deficit

Republican presidential contender Donald Trump often expresses dismay about the US trade deficit, which he ties to the loss of good paying middle class jobs.
August 29, 2016Leonard E. Burman
Business Taxes: TaxVox

Who Owns Pass-Through Businesses, And Who Would Benefit From Trump’s Plan To Cut Their Taxes?

Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the tax rate to 15 percent for pass-through businesses such as partnerships and S corporations would overwhelmingly benefit high-income taxpayers...
August 25, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Clinton Proposes Tax Simplification for Small Business

Hillary Clinton has proposed a package of measures , including some important tax changes, aimed at making life easier for small businesses. They aren’t especially...
August 23, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Taxes Are Not a Thing for Democrats This Year

Taxes are just not a thing for Democrats in this election season. The most remarkable take-away from reading the tax plank of the 2016 Democratic...
July 26, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Imagining Trump And Clinton Fiscal Policy In An Era of Growing Government Debt

The Congressional Budget Office’s long term budget outlook is a curious document. On one hand, a 30-year fiscal forecast will almost certainly be wrong. But...
July 12, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Ryan Proposes Big Tax Cuts for Business and Investors, Moves Towards a Cash Flow Tax

House Republicans Propose Big Tax Cuts for Business and Investors, Move Towards a Cash Flow Tax House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled his long-promised rewrite...
June 23, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Why Criticize What Trump Is Saying About His Tax Plan?

Critics are blasting Donald Trump for saying his tax plan would be open to negotiation should it ever get to Congress. There are plenty of reasons to criticize the presumptive GOP presidential candidate, but a willingness to find a middle ground on an important policy issue should not be one of them. How did stating the obvious become a political sin?
May 10, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Sanders’s Domestic Program Would Help Most Households, But Add More Than $18 Trillion to the Debt

Sanders’s Domestic Program Would Help Most Households, But Add More Than $18 Trillion to the Debt. Most American families would receive new government benefits that would exceed their higher taxes under the domestic policy agenda of Democratic Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. But even though
May 9, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The Best—And Worst—Tax Ideas of the 2016 Presidential Campaign

It is only April and we have heard presidential candidates propose some of the biggest and most ambitious tax plans i n modern US history. Donald Trump is proposing the largest tax cut ever, and Ted Cruz is not far behind. Bernie Sanders has proposed the biggest tax increase since World War II. But
April 14, 2016Howard Gleckman