April 10, 2024
Perhaps the two most influential economics thinkers of the past half-century were not economists at all. Psychologists Amos Tversky, who died young in 1996, and...
April 8, 2024
Foreign investors, retirement accounts, and other tax-exempt entities now dominate US stock ownership. This shift has important implications for understanding who wins and who loses...
April 2, 2024
In a new report , we find that the US tax code’s home mortgage interest deduction (HMID) favors White families relative to Black and Hispanic...
January 24, 2024
Momentum behind a tax plan drafted by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) has...
April 2, 2024
How The Anti-Tax Movement Changed Politics and Government In his new book, law professor Michael Graetz makes a provocative argument: The modern anti-tax movement is...
March 28, 2024
In a March 17 campaign speech, former president Trump vowe d “We're going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes...
March 19, 2024
Taxes feature prominently in the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2025 budget. They will continue to be a point of contention in the presidential election, with...
January 4, 2024
A recent hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Tax Policy brought attention to an important topic: How can the tax code...
February 27, 2024
High inflation appears to be giving way to an economic “ soft landing ,” alleviating concerns state forecasters had heading into the current fiscal year...
March 7, 2024
A bipartisan tax plan that overwhelmingly passed in the House is now stuck in the Senate in part because of proposed changes to the child...