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Jessica Kelly

Jessica Kelly is a director of research programming in the Information Technology department at the Urban Institute, where she has worked for over a decade. She works...
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Robin Wang

Robin Wang is a research analyst in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where he helps develop Urban’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model...
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Lydia Austin

Lydia Austin is a senior manager in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, where she assists the director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in managing...
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Rudolph G. Penner

Rudolph Penner is an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute. Before joining Urban, he was a managing director of the Barents Group, a KPMG Company...
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Philip Stallworth

Philip Stallworth is a research analyst in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. He primarily works on the federal tax model. He holds a bachelor’s degree...
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Joseph Rosenberg

Joseph Rosenberg is a senior research associate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where his research focuses primarily on issues of...
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Guide to Tables

The Tax Policy Center regularly produces tables showing the distribution of income and federal taxes, effective and marginal tax rates, and other measures of federal taxes. Other tables show estimates of individual tax expenditures, the distribution of capital gains and business income, and aspects of the alternative minimum tax. Follow the links below to view TPC tables covering those and other tax topics.

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Vanessa Williamson

Vanessa Williamson is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. She studies...
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Claire Haldeman

Claire Haldeman is a research assistant in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.

Grace Enda

Grace Enda is a Research Assistant in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.
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Noah Zwiefel

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...
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Individual Taxes

What is the adoption tax credit?

Credit Amount Taxpayers can receive a tax credit for all qualifying adoption expenses up to $13,570 in 2017. The maximum credit is indexed for inflation...
Individual Taxes

How does the federal tax system affect low-income households?

What federal tax rates do low-income households pay? Low-income households typically pay some federal tax. The Tax Policy Center estimates that, on average in 2017,...
Individual Taxes

What is the difference between refundable and nonrefundable credits?

Refundable Versus Nonrefundable tax credits The maximum value of a nonrefundable income tax credit is capped at a taxpayer’s income tax liability. In contrast, taxpayers...
Individual Taxes

Why do low-income families use tax preparers?

Tax preparation for low-income families Most people fill out their tax returns with assistance from paid preparers. In 2010, 56.8 percent of all returns were...