Noah Zwiefel

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Noah Zwiefel is a research assistant in the Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Zwiefel primarily works on TPC’s federal tax model. He graduated summa cum laude and with honors from Macalester College, where he holds a BA in economics.

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A Synthetic Supplemental Public-Use File of Low-Income Information Return Data: Methodology, Utility, and Privacy Implications
Claire Bowen, Victoria L. Bryant, Leonard E. Burman, Surachai Khitatrakun, Graham MacDonald, Robert McClelland, Philip Stallworth, Kyle Ueyama, Aaron R. Williams, Noah Zwiefel

November 11, 2020
Research report

Individual Taxes
Alternatives to the TCJA Limit on the State and Local Tax Deduction
Frank Sammartino, Gordon B. Mermin, Noah Zwiefel

May 7, 2020

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Federal Budget and Economy
Congress Missed the Mark When It Made Some Unemployment Benefits Tax-Free But Reduced Future Assistance
March 31, 2021 –
When Congress enacted the American Rescue Plan (ARP), it included an implicit deal: It agreed to reduce the level of additional future weekly federal unemployment...
Federal Budget and Economy
How Could the United States Pay for Reparations?
February 3, 2021 –
A few years ago, Ta-Nehesi Coates wrote a powerful essay, “The Case for Reparations” for The Atlantic . Reparations, he affirmed, would help close the...
State and Local Issues
We Don’t Know If The SALT Cap Is Driving Away Residents Of High-Tax States
February 10, 2020 –
Has the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act produced a mass migration...
State and Local Issues
Did SALT-y Voters Punish Republicans in 2018?
October 8, 2019 –
How important was the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s (TCJA’s) cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction in the 2018 congressional elections?...

Noah Zwiefel

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