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Hillary Clinton

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The 2016 Tax Vox Lump of Coal Award for the Year's Worst Tax Ideas

Donald Trump is not only President-elect, but he is also the hands-down winner of Tax Vox’s Lump of Coal Award for the worst tax policy...
December 20, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Both Clinton and Trump would reduce tax incentives for charitable giving

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have proposed tax changes that would result in less charitable giving. While the effects are indirect, the Tax Policy...
November 4, 2016Philip StallworthChenxi LuC. Eugene SteuerleJoseph Rosenberg
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The IRS’s Commendable Silence In The Presidential Campaign

Have you noticed the contrast in recent weeks between the FBI and the IRS? The FBI is seemingly in every other headline in this year’s...
November 3, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Trump and Clinton’s tax rates

While testing TPC’s cool election tax calculator , I was surprised to see that some high-income singles could pay more income taxes under Donald Trump’s...
November 3, 2016Leonard E. Burman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Character Vs. Policy In The 2016 Presidential Campaign

Of the many remarkable things about this campaign, there is this: Americans are learning far more about Donald Trump’s sex life and Hillary Clinton’s emails...
November 1, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

New tax calculator shows how taxes would change under Clinton & Trump tax plans

Just in time for the presidential election, the Tax Policy Center’s Election Tax Calculator debuts today. We designed it to help taxpayers, analysts, and the...
October 31, 2016Roberton C. Williams
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Clinton would increase the CTC for very low-income workers and young children

Hillary Clinton has proposed two important changes to the child tax credit (CTC). The first would phase in the credit starting with the first dollar...
October 24, 2016Elaine Maag
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Do deficits matter? Trump says no, Clinton says yes (sort of)

The fiscal policy debate in the 2016 presidential election (yes, Virginia, there is a policy debate, even if you can’t hear it through the noise)...
October 20, 2016Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Dynamic scoring modestly changes the revenue effects of the Clinton and Trump tax plans

Incorporating the macroeconomic effects of the tax plans of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has little effect on their revenue implications, according to updated analyses...
October 19, 2016Benjamin R. Page
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Clinton and Trump advisers display wide differences in tax policy debate

Imagine you are an undecided voter who wants to understand the tax policies of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. You might have tuned in to...
October 13, 2016Howard Gleckman