Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

People, if you want to know whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was good for you or not, stop obsessing about the size...

February 12, 2019Howard Gleckman

The Green New Deal is the big new thing among progressive Democrats. Until today, it has been little more than a four words (much like...

February 7, 2019Howard Gleckman

The debate over a carbon tax is about two big things: The most obvious is whether a tax at politically acceptable levels could significantly slow...

January 24, 2019Howard Gleckman

Happy New Year. And welcome to 2019, a year when several important tax policy issues are likely to hit the news. Watch for these: Whether...

It’s time for Tax Vox to present its annual Lump of Coal Award for the worst tax idea of the year.

December 20, 2018Howard Gleckman

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A key provision of 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was the elimination of the personal exemption. The change has a major effect on...

Everyone, it seems, says they want to cut taxes for the middle class. President Trump promised such tax relief in the weeks before the election...

December 10, 2018Howard Gleckman

House Democrats are developing new rules to govern their legislative deliberations when they take control of the House in January. One is awful.

November 30, 2018Howard Gleckman

In his press conference on Wednesday, President Trump raised more than a few eyebrows by saying he’d be willing to support “adjustments ” to the...

November 9, 2018Howard Gleckman

The 116 th Congress is going to look very different from the 115 th . But don’t expect tax and budget policy to change much...

November 7, 2018Howard Gleckman