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Don’t Look Now, But States Already Are Requiring Online Sellers To Collect Sales Taxes

Note to Congress: About that Internet sales tax thing, stand down...

September 4, 2018Howard Gleckman

The Case of Oregon’s Bicycle Excise Tax

Or: If you like it, then you might just pay a tax on it.

Oregon, one of five states with no sales tax, just passed an excise tax on bicycles to help fund trail maintenance and improvement. That decision generated a good bit of controversy, and as a bicycle-riding, trail-loving taxpayer, I wondered why a bicycle tax that supports bicycle trail use is so contentious.

August 2, 2017Renu Zaretsky

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The Challenges of Modeling Presidential Tax Plans

The Challenges of Modeling Presidential Tax Plans The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget sponsored a fascinating discussion yesterday on estimating presidential candidate tax plans. My Tax Policy Center colleague Len Burman, Kyle Pomerleau of the Tax Foundation, and Bob McIntyre of Citizens

March 10, 2016Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Bush’s Tax Plan Would Add $6.8 Trillion to the National Debt, Benefit High-Income Households

Jeb Bush’s tax plan would boost deficits by $6.8 trillion between 2016 and 2026 and overwhelmingly benefit the highest income taxpayers, according to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center. With added interest costs, the plan would boost the national debt by more than $8 trillion by 2026. After

December 7, 2015Howard Gleckman

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Thirty days, goodbye September, shutdown talks? Maybe in December.

About that possible government shutdown… The Senate passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 11. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner will meet with President Obama “soon” for budget negotiations , and the House is on

September 30, 2015Renu Zaretsky

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

Most State Budgets Are Improving But Their Long-Term Prospects Remain Uncertain

If you are not an energy dependent state, things ought to be pretty good, at least in the short-term. The economy is improving, though slowly, The Rockefeller Institute reported this morning that state tax revenues grew by 5.8 percent in the first quarter of this year and by 7.6 percent in the

September 17, 2015Howard Gleckman

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Credits, Collections and Refunds

The Department of Homeland Security didn’t shut down, but… fallout remains over the President Obama’s executive orders on immigration and their effect on low-income tax breaks. Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch wants the Administration to say how many immigrants protected from deportation

March 11, 2015Renu Zaretsky

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Watch What You Wish For: Dynamic Scoring Creates More Issues for the GOP

As TaxVox readers know by now , House Republicans now require the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office to include macroeconomic effects when they produce budget scores of major bills. The GOP hoped this would show that tax cuts would generate so much new economic activity

March 10, 2015Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Don’t Count on Much Economic Growth From Individual Tax Reform…Or From Tax Rate Cuts

Can individual income tax reform that cuts rates and eliminates subsidies increase economic growth? How about tax cuts by themselves? The answer is: Maybe, but not by much, according to a new paper by the Tax Policy Center’s Bill Gale and Andrew Samwick, director of The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center

September 10, 2014Howard Gleckman

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

Oscar Nominees Cash In On State Tax Subsidies

Each of the nine movies nominated for this year’s Oscar for best film may already have taken home a pile of tax subsidies. Seven brought...

January 21, 2014Howard Gleckman