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Brief Description of the Tax Model

Updated on March 9, 2022. The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center’s large-scale microsimulation model produces revenue and distribution estimates of the U.S. federal tax system.
Author

Kyle Pomerleau

Senior Fellow

Brett Theodos

Brett Theodos is a senior fellow and director of the Community Economic Development Hub at the Urban Institute. His work focuses on economic and community development, neighborhood change, affordable homeownership, consumer finance, and program evaluation and learning.
Senior Fellow

Douglas A. Wissoker

Doug Wissoker, a senior fellow with the Statistical Methods Group at the Urban Institute, is a labor economist with expertise in statistical and survey methods...
Nonresident Fellow

Laura Kawano

Laura Kawano is a nonresident fellow with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and a research affiliate with the Office of Tax Policy Research at the...
Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis

Yung Chun

University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Mathieu Despard

Research Analyst

Poonam Gupta

Poonam Gupta is a research analyst in the Income and Benefits Policy Center, focusing on social safety net policy, specifically related to food insecurity. Gupta...
Research Analyst

Peace Gwam

Peace Gwam is a research analyst in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Peace holds a BA in economics and...
Appalachian State University

Leah Hamilton

Fellow in Economics Studies and Policy Director for the Hamilton Project

Ryan Nunn

Fellow

Scott Pattison

Research Associate I

Caleb Quakenbush

Caleb Quakenbush is a research associate at the Urban Institute, where he works with the Opportunity and Ownership Initiative, the Program on Retirement Policy, and...
Research Associate

Megan Randall

Megan Randall is a research associate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where she works on projects pertaining to state and...
Senior Fellow

Karen E. Smith

Karen Smith is a senior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where she is an internationally recognized expert in...
Research Associate

Fay Walker

Fay Walker is a research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Her work focuses on affordable housing and...
Lead Data Engineer

Kyle Ueyama

Research Assistant

Sonia Torres Rodríguez

Sonia Torres Rodríguez is a research assistant in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Rodríguez’s research interests include racial equity,...
Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

Daniel Hemel

David C. John

Peterson Fiscal Intern, Brookings Institution

Ian Berlin

Research Associate

Aravind Boddupalli

Aravind Boddupalli is a research associate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, where he contributes to projects on federal, state, and local tax and budget...
Doctoral Student, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Nathan Born

Sol Price Fellow

Kim S. Rueben

Kim Rueben is the Sol Price fellow and director of the State and Local Finance Initiative at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Rueben is an...
Federal Budget and Economy

Major Enacted Tax Legislation, 1960-1969

Tax Reform Act of 1969
  • Personal Exemption. Phased-in increase in personal exemption amount from $600 to $750.
  • Investment Tax Credit. Repealed investment tax credit.
  • Minimum Standard Deduction. Increased minimum standard deduction from $300 plus $100 per capita (total maximum $1,000) to $1,000