Speech

On September 24, 2019, Janet Holtzblatt presented at TPC's event, "Taxing Wealth." This slide deck provides an overview of the concept of a wealth tax and presents three design options to create one. View a live recording of Holtzblatt's presentation here.

September 24, 2019
Janet Holtzblatt
Speech

This speech was delivered before the Annual Meeting of the OECD Network of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions in Seoul, South Korea on July 4, 2018.

October 3, 2018
Rudolph G. Penner
Speech

Eugene Steuerle, Richard Fisher Chair at the Urban Institute and co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center gave this luncheon presentation at the ABA Tax Meetings Exempt Organization.

May 11, 2018
C. Eugene Steuerle
Speech

Tracy Gordon, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, spoke before the New Democrat Coalition 21st Century Task Force on October 4, 2017. She shared four things that Congress may want to keep in mind when considering changes to infrastructure policy....

October 4, 2017
Tracy Gordon
Speech

Statement of Elaine Maag, Senior Research Associate at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, before the Democratic Women’s Working Group on May 24th, 2017.

May 25, 2017
Elaine Maag
Speech

In his 2011 NTA presidential address, Len Burman argued that tax policy in the US is stymied by lack of high quality data. He argues that the states should be encouraged to experiment and collect the data necessary to evaluate the effects of policies such as tax subsidies for saving. He also...

November 30, 2011
Leonard E. Burman
Speech

John A. Koskinen, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), delivered this speech at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center's event titled "How Do IRS Budget Cuts Affect Taxpayers and the Tax System?" on April 8, 2015.

April 8, 2015
John A. Koskinen