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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Welcome to the Tax Policy Center’s annual Lump of Coal Awards for the worst tax ideas of 2022. It was an election year...
December 21, 2022Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
Looking for a case study of our hyper-partisan politics? No need to search any further than your local gas pump. The ongoing debate in Washington...
July 6, 2022Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
President Biden is proposing a three-month federal gasoline tax holiday. He may want to appear to be doing something to address high inflation, which is both an economic concern...
June 22, 2022Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
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
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In response to rising gas prices, Maryland suspended its gas tax for 30 days. Connecticut and Georgia also have created gas tax holidays and lawmakers...
April 5, 2022Robert McClelland
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Note To Governors: Cutting Taxes May Make Inflation Worse Even as Republican governors blast President Biden and congressional Democrats for both causing inflation and failing...
March 15, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
President Biden and Democrats and Republicans in Congress have begun a fascinating game of three-dimensional chess over Biden’s $2.2 trillion infrastructure spending plan and the...
May 19, 2021Howard Gleckman
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Nobody making under 400,000 bucks would have their taxes raised. Period. Bingo. – Joe Biden, May 22, 2020 Enacting good tax policy is hard under...
March 24, 2021Leonard E. Burman
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At a recent forum on infrastructure, Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer discussed their proposals to bolster spending on...
March 2, 2020Aravind BoddupalliErin Huffer
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What are the biggest trends in state tax policy? Sometimes there are easy answers to this question. In recent years nearly every state made changes...
January 28, 2020Richard C. Auxier