High marginal tax rates can make moving above poverty very difficult for low-income families. These high tax rates result from increasing direct taxes and decreasing transfer payments. A single parent with two children who increases her wages from poverty-level to 150 percent of poverty-level can
The 2001-10 tax cuts placed substantial emphasis on “pro-family” tax reform. The more prominent features favoring families with children included a doubling of the Child...
The distribution of The Permanent Tax Relief for Families and Small Businesses Act of 2012 (Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" Proposal) against current law by cash income level in 2013.
The distribution of The Permanent Tax Relief for Families and Small Businesses Act of 2012 (Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" Proposal) against current law by cash income percentile in 2013.
The distribution of The Permanent Tax Relief for Families and Small Businesses Act of 2012 (Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" Proposal) against current policy by cash income level in 2013.
The distribution of The Permanent Tax Relief for Families and Small Businesses Act of 2012 (Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" Proposal) against current policy by cash income percentile in 2013.
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner may be close to agreeing on a plan that, among other things, would revise the way government programs...
Yesterday, I described President Eisenhower’s remarkable success in turning a large deficit in fiscal 1959 into a balanced budget in 1960. It was one of...
Baseline distribution by cash income level in 2013 of the amount of deducted charitable contributions that exceed $50,000, $50,000 less the taxes paid deduction, and $50,000 less all other itemized deductions.
The baseline distribution of the amount of deductiable chartable contributions in excess of $50,000, $50,000 less the taxes paid deduction, and $50,000 less all other itemized deductions.
The election results did not change the political status quo, and the status quo has not been conducive to solving the nation’s festering fiscal problems...
Distribution of federal tax change from allowing high-income tax provisions to expire and extending 2009 estate tax law, by cash income percentile, 2013
The distribution of federal tax change from raising the top two individual income tax rates to 34 and 36 percent under current policy by cash income percentile in 2013.
The distribution of federal tax change from raising the top individual income tax rate to 36 percent under current policy by cash income percentile in 2013.
Federal tax change from limiting the benefit of itemized deductions, except charitable contributions, to 28 percent in 2013, against current policy baseline, by cash income level
Federal tax change from limiting the benefit of itemized deductions, except charitable contributions, to 28 percent in 2013, against current policy baseline, by cash income percentile
Federal tax change from limiting the benefit of itemized deductions, tax-exempt health insurance premiums and tax-exempt bond interest to 28 percent in 2013, against current policy baseline, by cash income level
Federal tax change from limiting the benefit of itemized deductions, tax-exempt health insurance premiums and tax-exempt bond interest to 28 percent in 2013, against current policy baseline, by cash income percentile
Federal tax change from limiting the benefit of itemized deductions except charitable contributions, tax-exempt health insurance premiums and tax-exempt bond interest to 28 percent in 2013, against current policy baseline, by cash income level
Federal tax change from limiting the benefit of itemized deductions except charitable contributions, tax-exempt health insurance premiums and tax-exempt bond interest to 28 percent in 2013, against current policy baseline, by cash income percentile
Effective marginal individual income tax rates from limiting the benefit of itemized deductions to 28 percent in 2013, against current policy baseline, by cash income level
Effective marginal individual income tax rates from limiting the benefit of itemized deductions to 28 percent in 2013, against current policy baseline, by cash income percentile