Tax Policy Center

Center on Budget & Policy Priorites

State and Local Issues: TaxVox
While most presidential candidates are proposing big, bold changes to the federal tax code, they seem to be paying little attention to what those revisions would mean for state and local governments. And those implications could be substantial. That, at least, was the consensus at today’s panel
March 31, 2016Howard Gleckman
: 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
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
Each of the nine movies nominated for this year’s Oscar for best film may already have taken home a pile of tax subsidies. Seven brought...
January 21, 2014Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
In one of the more dangerous fiscal developments of recent months, some on the left are defining successful deficit reduction as merely stabilizing the federal...
February 1, 2013Rudolph G. Penner