Tax Policy Center

conformity

State and Local Issues: TaxVox
The Biden administration’s plan for broad-based student loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 per individual won’t affect borrowers’ federal tax bills, but it could have...
September 15, 2022Nikhita AiriLillian Hunter
: TaxVox
All states with an income tax link to the federal tax system to some degree. This system of federal-state conformity helps taxpayers by standardizing the...
August 19, 2019Erin Huffer
: TaxVox
The brilliant Tax Notes columnist Marty Sullivan once summarized one of the great dilemmas in taxation: “It’s simply impossible to put a precise geographical subscript...
July 9, 2018C. Eugene Steuerle
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
This year residents of the District of Columbia are getting the last tranche of a phased-in tax cut that was enacted in 2014. But because...
June 25, 2018Richard C. Auxier