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A new look at how current law and proposed reforms tax entrepreneurs

Tax policy debates often focus on entrepreneurs, those risk-takers who build businesses from scratch. In an effort to better understand how innovators who create new...

January 5, 2017Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Ten tax policy issues to watch in 2017

Making tax policy predictions for 2017 is especially perilous, given the uncertainties surrounding the incoming Trump Administration’s fiscal agenda. But since there is a good...

December 28, 2016Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Trump’s Treasury Pick Describes a Very Different Tax Plan Than His Boss

On CNBC this morning, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Treasury Department, Steven Mnuchin, described a very interesting tax plan . However, it bears...

November 30, 2016Howard Gleckman

Business Taxes: TaxVox

Taxing Multinationals Can’t Pay for Both Roads and Tax Rate Reductions

Aides to president-elect Donald Trump as well as key lawmakers are promoting a three-way deal that would include business tax reform, a tax break for...

November 17, 2016Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Don’t confuse Trump’s tax cuts with tax reform

Have you noticed the subtle reframing of Donald Trump’s tax plan? During the campaign, it was a huge tax cut. Now, Trump and his congressional...

November 15, 2016Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Trump’s Campaign Rhetoric May Have Been Populist But His Tax Plan Isn’t

Donald Trump ran for president as a classic anti-establishment candidate , promising to stand up for regular Joes against the political and economic elites. He...

November 10, 2016Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Five Tax Policy Issues To Watch In The Trump Administration

November 8, 2016Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Giving Olympians A Special Tax Break Wins The Gold Medal Of Bad Ideas

It is the season of Olympic madness. No, not cheering over the dramatic finish of the women’s 400 meter sprint. That would make sense. Rather,...

August 16, 2016Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Trump's huge tax cuts

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s tax plan would slash taxes for individuals and businesses.

July 18, 2016Richard C. Auxier

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Imagining Trump And Clinton Fiscal Policy In An Era of Growing Government Debt

The Congressional Budget Office’s long term budget outlook is a curious document. On one hand, a 30-year fiscal forecast will almost certainly be wrong. But...

July 12, 2016Howard Gleckman