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capital gains tax

: TaxVox
In a famous conversation, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald is credited with saying that “the rich are very different than you and me,” to which...
September 7, 2023William G. GaleSemra Vignaux
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The revenue provisions of President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget would lower after-tax incomes by an average of about $2,300 next year, according to a...
March 23, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
A First Look At The Revenue Provisions Of Biden’s 2024 Budget President Biden’s 2024 budget would raise taxes by more than $4.5 trillion over the...
March 9, 2023Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have proposed exempting cryptocurrency transactions of $50 or less from capital gains taxes. While it seems like...
August 1, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Did President Biden and other Democrats read 18 th century revolutionary Tom Paine before they proposed their taxes on extreme wealth? Hard to know, but...
May 10, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Democrats started this year with President Biden’s proposal to raise taxes on high-income households as a way to help pay for an ambitious social spending...
December 21, 2021Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
How The Democrats’ New Millionaire Surtax Would Work Democrats, scrambling to find a way to tax high-income households that Congress is willing to enact, appear...
October 28, 2021Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
All major provisions of the House Ways & Means Committee’s budget reconciliation tax bill would cut 2022 taxes on average for households making $200,000 or...
September 28, 2021Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
When Congress debates major legislation, the public often focuses on a single narrow issue—one frequently irrelevant to the main point of the bill. It happened...
September 10, 2021Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Pro Publica’s recent story about the small amount of tax paid by many of the nation’s billionaires has focused new attention on what critics say...
June 15, 2021C. Eugene Steuerle