energy taxes

Industrial Policy Is Back. What Will It Mean For Taxes?

Industrial policy is trending. At a time when few policy ideas win bipartisan support, government subsidies for favored industries are feeling the love from Democrats...

September 13, 2022Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

What You Need To Know About The Manchin-Schumer Climate and Tax Compromise

What You Need To Know About The Manchin-Schumer Compromise After more than a year of often-fraught negotiations, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) says he has agreed...

July 28, 2022Howard Gleckman

Business Taxes: TaxVox

The Energy Tax Policy Conundrum: Do We Want To Reduce Fossil Fuel Prices Or Increase Them?

State and federal lawmakers are debating an extraordinary range of often-contradictory energy-related tax changes. These inconsistencies have existed for years, but they rarely have been...

April 7, 2022Howard Gleckman

: TaxVox

The Winners and Losers of Rising Oil Prices

With gasoline prices spiking, many state legislatures are debating whether to suspend gas taxes in an effort to provide some relief to consumers. But higher...

April 1, 2022Lucy Dadayan

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The White House Quietly Rolls Out Its Last Tax and Budget Plan

If the White House wanted to attract attention to its final budget , it could not have picked a worse day to make it public. With official Washington obsessed with today’s New Hampshire primary, the 2017 budget barely caused a ripple. In case there was any question about its fate on Capitol Hill,

February 8, 2016Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Senate Democrats Would Take Some Small Steps To Clean Up Energy Tax Breaks

A group of 28 Senate Democrats has proposed a major new energy bill that includes what they call significant reforms in the dozens of tax breaks aimed at encouraging the production and use of clean energy. I’ll let real energy policy experts speak to the broader bill, but the tax provisions are

September 21, 2015Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Gas Prices Are Too Low

GOP presidential candidates are blasting President Obama for not lowering the price of gasoline. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) doesn’t stop there. He claims Obama is...

March 13, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Whatever Happened to All Those Expiring Tax Breaks?

In two days, 53 targeted tax breaks will, officially at least, die. By the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation’s count , that’s the number of...

December 29, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Solyndra, Carrots, and Sticks

A wonderfully-titled new paper —The Tragedy of the Carrots—by Boston College law professor Brian Galle got me thinking about Solyndra, the failed solar panel company...

October 11, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Taxes and Energy Policy

Last week I had the opportunity to testify before two Ways and Means subcommittees--Select Revenue Measures and Oversight--about the way our tax system is used...

September 29, 2011Donald Marron