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The AHCA’s Tax Changes And Transfers Would Benefit the Wealthy, Hurt the Lowest Income Households

The AHCA’s Tax Changes And Transfers Would Benefit The Wealthy, Hurt The Lowest Income Households The House Republican health plan—the American Health Care Act (AHCA)—would...
March 22, 2017Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

House GOP Health Plan Would Finance Tax Cuts by Reducing Medicaid and Insurance Subsidies

Here is one way to think about the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation score of the House Republican health bill : By...
March 14, 2017Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

ACA and the perils of reconciliation

I intended to write a completely different post about how repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would undermine Medicare’s finances. My story was half right:...
March 13, 2017Leonard E. Burman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The House GOP’s Proposals To Repeal ACA Taxes Would Largely Benefit High-Income Households

The House Republican proposal to repeal or delay the tax increases in the Affordable Care Act, including the revenue-raisers and the individual and employer mandate...
March 10, 2017Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The big tax changes in the House GOP health plan

On Monday, House Republicans introduced legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In addition to major revisions to Medicaid and other parts...
March 8, 2017Gordon B. Mermin
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How Russia and the Affordable Care Act Are Killing Tax Reform

Tax reform was always going to be a tough sell in 2017. But now, thanks to the seemingly bottomless controversy over the Trump campaign’s Russia...
March 6, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

What Delaying Affordable Care Act Repeal Means for Tax Reform

What Delaying Affordable Care Act Repeal Would Mean for Tax Reform It looks increasingly as if Congress may slow-walk its efforts to repeal the Affordable...
January 11, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Repealing the Affordable Care Act Would Cut Taxes For High Income Households, Raise Taxes For Many Others

Repealing the Affordable Care Act would cut taxes significantly for the highest income one percent of US households, according to a new Tax Policy Center...
December 15, 2016Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The TaxVox Lump of Coal Awards for the Ten Worst Tax Ideas of 2015

It is time for TaxVox’ s annual Lump of Coal awards for the worst tax ideas (or most depressing tax stories) of 2015. As always, choosing the Top 10 was not easy, but here they are: 10. The Michigan House . Lawmakers tried to pay for new transportation projects by eliminating the state’s earned
December 21, 2015Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The ACA Penalty Tax Is Going Up If You Don’t Get Health Insurance

It’s open season again for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , when Americans can sign up for health care, often with the help of large subsidies from the federal government. Millions of people will enroll but millions more won’t and many will have to pay much larger penalties on their 2016 tax returns
December 2, 2015Roberton C. Williams