flexible spending account

Flexible Spending Accounts: How They Work And Who Benefits

Should tax policy encourage and reward your family’s healthier choices by expanding the use of FSAs?

January 3, 2024Renu Zaretsky

Simplifying and Targeting Tax Subsidies for Child Care

Two tax benefits—the child and dependent care tax credit (CDCTC) and the employer-provided child care exclusion—help families pay for work-related child care, but neither does...

March 23, 2017Elaine Maag

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The Case of a Good Walk, and Tax Expenditure, Spoiled

“Here’s why your golf purchases could become tax deductible.” The Golf Digest headline popped up in my review of tax news a couple of weeks ago. Tax policy can be confusing, but this blew my mind. I married into a family of golfers, and I like golf (sometimes I even love it), but how on earth could my husband or I deduct the cost of our golf purchases?

June 1, 2016Renu Zaretsky

: TaxVox

Who Deserves a [Tax] Break Today?

Is dynamic scoring ready for prime time? At a TPC-Hutchins Center program yesterday, backers and critics debated whether congressional scorekeepers should include macroeconomic effects of tax changes when doing a budget score. They disagreed, of course, but did agree that if the tool is used, it

January 27, 2015Renu Zaretsky