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Immigrant Parents Are Less Aware of Child Tax Credit Than US-Born Parents and More Likely to Plan to Use It to Invest in Education, Fill Gaps in Child Care and Health Care

Immigrant parents are less likely to have heard about the expanded child tax credit (CTC) than parents born in the United States, according to a...
October 7, 2021Elaine MaagLaura Brugger
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Repealing the ACA’s Excise Taxes Benefits Middle- and Upper-Middle Income Households More than Other Groups

In its end-of-2019 budget agreement, Congress repealed three sizeable excise taxes included in the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA): a tax on high-cost employer-provided health...
January 10, 2020Gordon B. Mermin
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Warren’s Medicare For All “Employer Medicare Contribution” Is A Distortionary And Regressive Tax

On Friday, Elizabeth Warren released her financing plan for Medicare for All . It is predictably wonky and politically courageous—new spending is way more popular...
November 5, 2019Leonard E. Burman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The Story Of Medicare For All And Taxes Is Complex, But Warren And Sanders Have To Tell It

In a new report, my Urban Institute colleagues have estimated that a full-blown Medicare for All plan would increase federal government healthcare spending by a...
October 17, 2019Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox

2018 Voters Faced a Slew of Confusing Revenue  Measures and Rejected Most Tax Increases

With so much to follow in the midterm elections, it is easy to lose sight of a bumper crop of tax-related ballot measures . But...
November 9, 2018Vanessa Williamson
State and Local Issues: TaxVox

There are some taxing questions on 2016 ballots

On Election Day, voters in 11 states will answer ballot questions on big tax issues. Most will choose whether to raise taxes, largely earmarked for...
November 2, 2016Richard C. Auxier
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Who benefits from health-care related tax expenditures?

In 2015 , the federal government spent over $980 billion on health care, of which $260 billion – 27% – was through the tax code...
August 22, 2016John IselinPhilip Stallworth
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Estimates and the Economy: Let the Buyer Beware

The CBO, the ACA, and the economy: Precision doesn’t mean accuracy. Last Friday, the Congressional Budget Office projected that repeal of the Affordable Care Act would add $137 billion to the national debt over 10 years but boost the economy. But the estimates came with a big warning: “[R]epealing
June 24, 2015Renu Zaretsky
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Len Burman’s Brief for a Health Care VAT

In the cover essay in the current issue of The Milken Institute Review , Len Burman calls for a Value-Added Tax (VAT) to pay for government health care costs. Len, the director of Tax Policy Center (and, thus, my boss), argues that a dedicated—and fully transparent--health care VAT would increase
April 24, 2014Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Are Advanced Premium Assistance Tax Credits Workable?

In just a few years, the 2010 health reform law will begin providing subsidies to help low- and moderate-income people buy health insurance. And that...
November 28, 2011Elaine Maag