January 4, 2023
Should dogs be licensed and taxed?
January 4, 2023
Once they finally pick a Speaker, the very first legislative vote House Republicans will take will be aimed at making it harder for the IRS...
December 22, 2022
The two new reports on the IRS’s handling of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns raise more questions than they answer. And the most important...
December 21, 2022
Although Congress managed to reach a year-end topline spending agreement, it left many tax questions unanswered heading into 2023. One is considering whether to allow...
December 20, 2022
The spending bill congressional leaders agreed to early this morning creates significant new incentives for retirement savings and broadly eases rules for withdrawing funds. Like...
December 21, 2022
Welcome to the Tax Policy Center’s annual Lump of Coal Awards for the worst tax ideas of 2022. It was an election year...
December 14, 2022
Talks on the expansion of the Child Tax Credit appear to have stalled, with a key sticking point being opposition of some lawmakers to making...
December 13, 2022
Congress should eliminate the debt ceiling this year. It serves no useful purpose. It doesn’t contribute to fiscal discipline, and breaching it entails large, potentially,...
December 8, 2022
The Family Security Act 2.0 (FSA 2.0) framework introduced this past June by Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Richard Burr (R-NC) emerged...
December 8, 2022
How will we know whether the Inflation Reduction Act’s $80 billion ten-year investment in the Internal Revenue Service is successful? Unfortunately, measuring performance isn’t easy,...