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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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CNBC

Does Biden tax plan affect those with income below $400,000? It depends on your frame of reference

Greg Iacurci

June 15, 2021

The Washington Post

The misleading claim that Biden would raise taxes $28,000 per household

Glenn Kessler

June 15, 2021

TIME

COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America's Elder Care System. This is Our Best Shot to Fix them.

Abigail Abrams

June 15, 2021

Business Insider

Biden's budget would cut taxes for all low-income households but especially parents, analysis shows

Ayelet Sheffey

June 14, 2021

National Review

Center-Left Think Tank: Biden Budget Would Hike Taxes on More Than Half of Filers

Robert Verbruggen

June 14, 2021

The Washington Post

Opinion: Biden’s plans would give families a surprisingly big lift. New data shows how.

Greg Sargent

June 10, 2021

MarketWatch

How would Biden’s tax hikes hit the wealth of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other billionaires? First, they’d have to die, experts say

Andrew Keshner

June 10, 2021

Forbes

Biden Would Raise Taxes Substantially For High Income Households But Cut Taxes For Families With Children, TPC Reports

Howard Gleckman

June 10, 2021

Forbes

What Does FDA’s Approval Of A New Alzheimer’s Drug Mean?

Howard Gleckman

June 8, 2021

Forbes

How Would Biden Tax Capital Gains At Death?

Howard Gleckman

June 8, 2021

The Hill

Biden faces challenge with Democrats on infrastructure package

Naomi Jagoda

June 7, 2021

Quartz

The G7 deal will force tax havens like Ireland to rethink their economy

Samanth Subramanian

June 7, 2021

The Washington Post

Opinion: Congress hatches a bad bipartisan retirement savings policy

June 7, 2021

McClatchy

Will saving for retirement soon get simpler? Here’s what Congress has planned

David Lightman

June 7, 2021

Forbes

Biden’s Tax On Large Capital Gains At Death Will Catch A Few With Annual Incomes Of Less than $400,000

Howard Gleckman

May 28, 2021

Forbes

Will Senate Moderates Sink Biden’s Medicaid Home-Based Long-Term Care Plan?

Howard Gleckman

May 28, 2021

From TaxVox

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...
Business Taxes
Biden Follows Through on His Campaign Promise of Big Tax Hikes on US Corporations
March 31, 2021 –
Biden Follows Through On His Campaign Promise Of Big Tax Hikes on US Corporations US-based multinational corporations can’t say they were not warned. President Biden...
Individual Taxes
Are The American Rescue Plan’s Tax Cliffs Really Such A Big Deal?
March 23, 2021 –
Are American Rescue Plan’s Tax Cliffs Really Such A Big Deal? Economists hate cliffs. But the tax cliffs in the ARP may not be so bad.
Individual Taxes
Biden’s Pandemic Relief Bill Is One of The Biggest One Year Tax Cuts in Modern US History
March 16, 2021 –
Talk about playing against type: The tax cuts in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) are among the biggest one-year tax reductions in modern US...
Federal Budget and Economy
TPC Releases A New Distributional Analysis Of The Pandemic Relief Bill
March 11, 2021 –
The Tax Policy Center has published a new distributional analysis the American Rescue Plan (ARP) that incorporates several relatively minor tax provisions that were not...
Federal Budget and Economy
Pandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes by An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households
March 8, 2021 –
Pandemic bill would Cct taxes by an average of $3,000, with most relief going to low- and middle-income households, according to a new TPC analysis...
State and Local Issues
Maryland’s Digital Advertising Levy Sets Off a New Battle Over Taxing E-Commerce
February 25, 2021 –
The most interesting tax news these days may be state efforts to tax digital advertising
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
TPC Finds the Ways & Means Pandemic Relief Plan Mostly Helps Low- and Moderate-Income Households, But Higher Income Families Benefit as Well
February 10, 2021 –
The major tax provisions of the pandemic relief bill proposed by House Ways & Means Committee Democrats on January 8 would reduce 2021 federal taxes...
Individual Taxes
Advancing Child Tax Credit Payments Makes Good Sense, But the IRS Will Need Funds to Pull It Off.
February 9, 2021 –
The plan to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) proposed yesterday by House Ways & Means Committee Democrats included an important new feature—the IRS would...
Individual Taxes
How Biden Can Expand And Better Target the Child Tax Credit
February 2, 2021 –
In a recent blog , I looked at two ways Congress could refocus those $1,400 per person relief payments on those who need it most...
There Are Ways Congress Could Better Target A New Round of Pandemic Relief Payments
January 26, 2021 –
Congressional Republicans and some Democrats are urging lawmakers to better target President Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan for new pandemic relief. And they are right: It...
Federal Budget and Economy
The Delicate Deficit Dance That May Define Biden’s Presidency
January 20, 2021 –
It was fascinating to watch Treasury-secretary designate Janet Yellen and several Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee dance their delicate deficit dance at Yellen’s...
Biden's Huge Pandemic Relief Plan Would Cut Taxes for Low- and Moderate-Income Households
January 15, 2021 –
President-elect Joe Biden proposed a new $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan last night that would substantially cut taxes for low- and moderate-income households, especially those...

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