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Individual Taxes: TaxVox
A recent hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Tax Policy brought attention to an important topic: How can the tax code...
January 4, 2024Leonard E. Burman
: TaxVox
The New York Times account of President Trump’s tax returns reveal far more than his personal ability to avoid taxes.
October 19, 2020C. Eugene Steuerle
: TaxVox
The United States has very little experience coping with pandemics, let alone their fiscal implications. As the crisis progresses, state leaders may be inclined to...
March 19, 2020Donnie Charleston
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
COVID-19 poses a severe threat not only to public health but also to the overall U.S. economy. The Nation’s policy response should focus on three...
March 17, 2020Donald Marron
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
On March 3, the Treasury Department put out a press release saying that 2018’s charitable giving “appeared largely unchanged from previous years,” despite a “concern...
March 6, 2020C. Eugene Steuerle
Business Taxes: TaxVox
TPC’s Steve Rosenthal and American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Aparna Mathur recently debated the corporate tax provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
February 24, 2020Aparna Mathur
Business Taxes: TaxVox
Last week , I debated American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Aparna Mathur on the question of whether the corporate income tax rate cuts from the...
February 19, 2020Steven M. Rosenthal
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
In last night’s State of the Union address , President Trump declared, “Our economy is the best it has ever been.” And, he added, “If...
February 5, 2020Howard GleckmanAravind Boddupalli
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) cut federal tax revenues by nearly $2 trillion over its first decade, with almost all the benefit going...
October 7, 2019Leonard E. Burman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
A new Congressional Research Service report finds that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had little measureable effect on the overall US economy in...
May 29, 2019Howard Gleckman