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Howard Gleckman

Senior Fellow

I live a double life at Urban, but both my roles focus on finding answers to tough policy questions. Building on three decades as a journalist, my work at the Tax Policy Center aims to explain often-arcane tax and fiscal policy to a broad audience. My long-term care work focuses on building practical solutions to the nation’s financing and delivery challenges.

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Forbes

South Dakota Turned Itself Into A Tax Haven. But Why?

Howard Gleckman

October 15, 2021

Factcheck.org

GOP Group’s Ad Spins Biden Tax Plan on Family Farms

Robert Farley

October 14, 2021

Politifact

A 61% federal tax that would have been rarely applied is not under consideration

Tom Kertscher

October 13, 2021

AFP Fact Check

US infrastructure bill does not include 61 percent estate tax

Claire Savage

October 13, 2021

Forbes

Congress’s Fiscal Drama Is Nothing Like It Seems

Howard Gleckman

September 30, 2021

Business Insider

America's wealthiest 0.1% will pay $1 million more a year under Biden's tax plan. Lower-income parents will see big cuts.

Juliana Kaplan, Andy Kiersz

September 29, 2021

yahoo!finance

Yahoo Money Democrats seek new tax on America's richest while scaling down other hikes

Denitsa Tsekova

September 13, 2021

POLITICO

Democrats put tax hikes on fast track — after knocking GOP’s haste on tax cuts

Brian Faler

September 13, 2021

Los Angeles Times

Column: Democrats are ready to raise taxes, but not by nearly enough

Michael Hiltzik

September 13, 2021

Forbes

Was The Senate’s Heated Crypto Tax Reporting Debate Much Ado About Nothing?

Howard Gleckman

September 11, 2021

Forbes

Biden’s Vaccine Order Will Require Most, But Not All, Long-Term Care Providers To Get Jabbed

Howard Gleckman

September 10, 2021

yahoo!finance

Higher taxes may be on the way for wealthy Americans after House vote

Denitsa Tsekova

September 1, 2021

CNBC

Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat, says Biden’s plan to tax assets at death would hurt family businesses

Robert Frank

September 1, 2021

CNBC

Here’s how retirement plan tax breaks may widen racial wealth gaps

Kate Dore

September 1, 2021

MarketWatch

Over 100 million U.S. households paid no federal income tax last year

Andrew Keshner

August 20, 2021

The Hill

Sixty-one percent of households owed no federal income taxes last year: analysis

NAOMI JAGODA

August 19, 2021

From TaxVox

Individual Taxes
South Dakota Turned Itself Into A Tax Haven. But Why?
October 14, 2021 –
In recent decades, South Dakota has become one of the world’s great tax havens. By the end of last year, more than $367 billion in...
Business Taxes
TPC Answers Two Questions About Its Analysis of the House Ways & Means Committee’s Tax Bill
September 29, 2021 –
After the Tax Policy Center published its new analysis of the House Ways & Means Committee’s budget reconciliation tax plan , commentators asked two questions:...
Federal Budget and Economy
TPC: The Ways & Means Reconciliation Bill Would Raise Taxes On High Income Households, Cut Taxes On Average For Nearly Everyone Else
September 28, 2021 –
All major provisions of the House Ways & Means Committee’s budget reconciliation tax bill would cut 2022 taxes on average for households making $200,000 or...
Federal Budget and Economy
Congress's Fiscal Drama Isn't What It Seems
September 24, 2021 –
Welcome to Fall. The season where, predicably, the weather gets cooler, the leaves change color, and Congress puts on its annual fiscal crisis. This year,...
Federal Budget and Economy
Neal’s Tax Bill Is Big And Bold, With Hits and Misses
September 14, 2021 –
The most important thing to know about the tax bill proposed by House Ways & Means Committee Richard Neal (D-MA) is that it’s big. The...
Individual Taxes
Was The Senate’s Heated Crypto Tax Reporting Debate Much Ado About Nothing?
September 10, 2021 –
When Congress debates major legislation, the public often focuses on a single narrow issue—one frequently irrelevant to the main point of the bill. It happened...
Individual Taxes
Would Extending More Generous Tax Credits Increase The Number Of Non-Income Tax Payers?
August 25, 2021 –
Would Extending More Generous Tax Credits Increase The Number Of Non-Income Tax Payers? We know the pandemic and the policy response to it dramatically increased...
Individual Taxes
The COVID-19 Pandemic Drove A Huge, But Temporary, Increase in Households That Did Not Pay Federal Income Tax
August 18, 2021 –
The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy response to it led to an extraordinary increase in the number of American households that owed no federal individual income tax in 2020. The Tax Policy Center estimates that last year more than 107 million households, or nearly 61 percent, owed no income tax or even received tax credits from the government.
Individual Taxes
Crypto Confusion Shows Why Congress Is Broken
August 10, 2021 –
In what has become common practice, a handful of senators and Administration staffers tried over a few days to draft a highly complex bit of...
Business Taxes
Some In the Environmental Justice Movement Oppose A Carbon Tax. That Is A Problem
July 20, 2021 –
While President Biden has called climate change an existential threat, his proposals for addressing it remain modest relative to the enormity of the problem. In...
Individual Taxes
Want To Know Why A Wealth Tax Won’t Work? Remember The Time Michael Jackson’s Estate Landed in Tax Court
July 12, 2021 –
If you want to know why a wealth tax would be an administrative nightmare, take a look at the dispute over the estate of pop...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Paying for Infrastructure With Pixie Dust
June 29, 2021 –
President Biden and a bipartisan group of senators have agreed to the framework of a plan to boost infrastructure spending by about $579 billion. On...
Business Taxes
The Fate Of Biden’s Corporate Tax Hikes May Rest On Who Voters Think Pay Them
June 17, 2021 –
As the partisan battle heats up over President Biden’s ambitious infrastructure plan—and the tax increases to pay for it—the fate of the package will largely...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Biden Would Raise Taxes Substantially for High Income Households and Corporations, Cut Taxes for Families with Children, According to A New TPC Analysis
June 9, 2021 –
Nearly all of President Biden’s proposed tax increases would be borne by the highest income 1 percent of households--those making about $800,000 or more—according to...
Individual Taxes
How Biden Would Tax Capital Gains At Death
June 7, 2021 –
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...
Federal Budget and Economy
The Deficit Is Likely To Be Bigger Than Biden Projects, But Not Because Of A Rosy Economic Forecast
June 2, 2021 –
Those of us who have been writing about the federal budgets for too long remember the sad history of presidents trotting out wildly optimistic economic...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Biden’s Tax On Large Capital Gains At Death Will Catch A Few With Annual Incomes Of Less than $400,000
May 27, 2021 –
President Biden’s campaign promise never to raise taxes on those making $400,000 or less annually will inevitably conflict with his proposal to tax unrealized capital...
Individual Taxes
Biden’s Tax Plan May Make Congress Come to Grips With The Question: What Is Income?
May 26, 2021 –
Tax bills almost always force Congress to think about how to define income, but President Biden’s campaign promise to never raise taxes for those making...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
TPC Compares President Biden’s Tax Agenda With Candidate Biden’s: Where It Differs and Where It Tracks
May 21, 2021 –
When Joe Biden ran for president, his campaign platform included dozens of relatively specific tax proposals. They ranged from expanding refundable tax credits for low-...
Individual Taxes
What Plays Better With the Public, Democratic Corporate Tax Hikes Or GOP User Fees?
May 19, 2021 –
President Biden and Democrats and Republicans in Congress have begun a fascinating game of three-dimensional chess over Biden’s $2.2 trillion infrastructure spending plan and the...
Individual Taxes
Delaying Required IRA Distributions Again Would Largely Help Only The Wealthy
May 5, 2021 –
The House Ways & Means Committee is once again tinkering with the law that requires retirees to take minimum distributions from their individual retirement accounts...
Individual Taxes
Are IRS Security Tools Blocking Millions of People from Filing Electronically?
April 26, 2021 –
The IRS struggles mightily to balance two goals: It desperately wants to encourage taxpayers to file their tax returns electronically rather than on paper. And...
Individual Taxes
SALT Cap Repeal Would Overwhelmingly Benefit High Income Households
April 23, 2021 –
Households making $1 million or more a year would receive half the benefit of repealing the $10,000 federal cap on the state and local tax...
Business Taxes
Will the GOP Rift with Big Business Lead to Higher Corporate Taxes?
April 20, 2021 –
Could the corporate blowback against GOP efforts to rewrite voting rules in Georgia and other states drive congressional Republicans to accept some of President Biden’s...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
How Biden’s No-Tax Pledge Could Sink His Climate Change Initiative
April 9, 2021 –
Nowhere is President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda more in conflict than in his triple aim of funding a major infrastructure initiative , attacking climate change...

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