COVID-19

TPC: The Number Of Those Who Don’t Pay Federal Income Tax Drops To Pre-Pandemic Levels

After dramatically rising during the worst of the pandemic, the number of households who pay no federal income tax has fallen sharply. It will remain...

October 27, 2022Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Why Congress Will Borrow To Help Ukraine But May Pay For New COVID-19 Medical Costs With Offsetting Spending Cuts

Why is Congress prepared to spend billions of dollars for new aid to Ukraine without requiring offsetting tax increases or spending cuts at the same...

May 17, 2022Howard Gleckman

: TaxVox

Should Government Use Tax Incentives to Encourage People to Get The COVID-19 Vaccine?

Tax incentives can encourage action that supports the public good—like lifting children out of poverty, giving to charity, pursuing higher education, or using alternatives to fossil fuels. How about helping end a global pandemic?

May 5, 2021Renu Zaretsky

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

TPC Releases A New Distributional Analysis Of The Pandemic Relief Bill

The Tax Policy Center has published a new distributional analysis the American Rescue Plan (ARP) that incorporates several relatively minor tax provisions that were not...

March 11, 2021Howard Gleckman

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

To Understand How COVID-19 Affected States, Compare Governors’ New Budgets to Their Pre-Pandemic Plans

In a new analysis , the Tax Policy Center’s State and Local Finance Initiative compared governors’ fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget proposals with their state’s...

March 8, 2021Richard C. Auxier

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

Why States and Localities Need More Federal Aid

Opponents of additional federal aid to state and local governments have noted that overall state revenue declines have not been as bad as expected during...

February 22, 2021Lucy Dadayan Kim S. Rueben

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Congress Could Make COVID-19 Relief Payments Fairer, Less Costly, and More Stimulative

Republicans and some leading economists have raised concerns about the cost, fairness, and stimulative effects of proposed cash payments in the pandemic relief legislation Congress...

February 11, 2021James R. Nunns

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Another Way to Target Pandemic Relief Payments: Help Those Who Were Financially Hurt the Most In 2020

Some Senate Republicans say they want to scale back President Biden’s proposed $1,400 relief payments. Last week, my Tax Policy Center colleague Howard Gleckman proposed...

February 1, 2021James R. Nunns

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

How Much Has the Pandemic Affected President-elect Biden’s Opportunity to Chart a New Course?

Largely as a consequence of the pandemic, trillions of dollars have been flowing out of the Treasury’s coffers. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects the...

January 19, 2021C. Eugene Steuerle Erald Kolasi

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Why Are Dependents Over Age 16 Still Ineligible for Economic Impact Payments?

Over 20 million people—dependents who are college students, adults with disabilities, or elderly parents cared for by their adult children—were missed when calculating economic impact payments not once, but twice. Why?

January 6, 2021Renu Zaretsky