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Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How Democrats Who Want To Tax The Very Wealthy Are Taking A Page From Thomas Paine

Did President Biden and other Democrats read 18 th century revolutionary Tom Paine before they proposed their taxes on extreme wealth? Hard to know, but...
May 10, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How Biden Would Tax Capital Gains At Death

How Would Biden Tax Capital Gains At Death? President Biden has proposed major changes in the way the US taxes the assets of those who...
June 7, 2021Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Don't Try To Mark To Market Capital Gains. Tax Unrealized Gains At Death Instead

Wealth taxation by other means
November 21, 2019Howard Gleckman
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The Death Tax Isn’t So Scary for States

If there is a Halloween-themed tax it’s got to be the death tax (the poll-tested moniker for estate taxes). And the estate tax has scared...
October 30, 2019Richard C. Auxier
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How Should We Tax The Rich

A cheat sheet on some of the leading ideas.
September 10, 2019Howard Gleckman
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Spending Cuts, Surpluses and Sales Opportunities

The House GOP Budget: No tax reform details. The House Budget Committee unveiled a budget with $5.5 trillion in spending cuts that promises balance by 2024. Committee Chairman Tom Price is confident the budget will pass the House this week. However, TPC’s Howard Gleckman says there is no chance it
March 18, 2015Renu Zaretsky