Tax Policy Center

capital gains

Individual Taxes: TaxVox
It is conventional wisdom that people adjust their investment patterns in response to upcoming changes in capital gains tax rates: They accelerate their gains if...
February 17, 2017Robert McClelland
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Donald Trump would permit businesses to immediately expense new investment . As a result, they could deduct the full cost of plant and equipment at...
September 9, 2016Steven M. Rosenthal
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
If the White House wanted to attract attention to its final budget , it could not have picked a worse day to make it public. With official Washington obsessed with today’s New Hampshire primary, the 2017 budget barely caused a ripple. In case there was any question about its fate on Capitol Hill,
February 8, 2016Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
Renaissance Technologies, an investment manager, is once again showing how to aggressively manipulate the tax system for its own benefit. This time, Renaissance is helping its owners/employees (who are some of the wealthiest individuals in the country) to shelter tens of millions of dollars in tax-
June 22, 2015Steven M. Rosenthal
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
One of the most useful insights of public economics is the "theory of second best." The idea is that adopting some but not all of the features of optimal policy—the seminal article on the subject called this “piecemeal policy recommendations”—may actually make the economy less efficient. A great
March 3, 2015Leonard E. Burman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
In his budget proposal, President Obama would raise capital gains taxes as a way to finance middle class tax relief. Along with many Republicans, he also supports tax rate cuts for business and efforts to prevent multinational corporations from avoiding U. S. taxation. This raises an intriguing
February 6, 2015C. Eugene Steuerle
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The Tax Policy Center’s tables showing the distribution of President Obama’s new income tax proposals indicate that some middle-class households would pay more tax than under current law. The Administration says they wouldn't. The reason is that TPC and the White House disagree over what counts as
February 2, 2015Leonard E. Burman
: TaxVox
An analysis lays a foundation for debate. The TPC has a new paper on the distributional effects of the President’s tax proposals . His tax cuts primarily benefit low-income single workers and families with children. Households with very high incomes and substantial capital assets would pay more. A
February 2, 2015Renu Zaretsky
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
President Obama’s latest tax package, which he’ll unveil in detail next week along with his new budget, would lower taxes for low-income households and significantly raise taxes for the highest income 1 percent—those making $663,000 or more, according to new Tax Policy Center estimates . Middle-
January 28, 2015Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
President Obama’s new proposal to tax capital gains at death is a welcome change that would close a huge loophole, but it suffers from a serious flaw: For some assets, it would be a record-keeping nightmare. Fortunately, there is an easy fix. The proposal is part of a broader tax plan that Obama
January 21, 2015William G. Gale