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Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Everyone, it seems, says they want to cut taxes for the middle class. President Trump promised such tax relief in the weeks before the election...
December 10, 2018Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The other day, the Census Bureau put out a new report that concluded about one-in-five Americans received government benefits in 2012. But the study, called Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Participation in Government Programs, 2009–2012: Who Gets Assistance, takes a far too narrow view about who
June 4, 2015Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
In 1998, when I was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the Treasury Department , I asked my staff expert on the Earned Income...
November 7, 2011Leonard E. Burman