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Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Ignore the Debate Over Whether the Inflation Reduction Act Raises Taxes on Those Making $400,000 Or Less

As Congress is about to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Washington is once again having a breathless debate over very little. This one is about...
August 12, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Cryptocurrency Is Primarily An Investment, Not Money. It Should Be Taxed That Way

Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have proposed exempting cryptocurrency transactions of $50 or less from capital gains taxes. While it seems like...
August 1, 2022Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Build Back Better 2.0 Still Raises Taxes For High Income Households And Reduces Them For Others

In a new analysis , the Tax Policy Center estimates that the major tax changes in the latest version of President Biden’s Build Back Better...
November 11, 2021Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How The Democrats’ New Millionaire Surtax Would Work

How The Democrats’ New Millionaire Surtax Would Work Democrats, scrambling to find a way to tax high-income households that Congress is willing to enact, appear...
October 28, 2021Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

TPC: The Ways & Means Reconciliation Bill Would Raise Taxes On High Income Households, Cut Taxes On Average For Nearly Everyone Else

All major provisions of the House Ways & Means Committee’s budget reconciliation tax bill would cut 2022 taxes on average for households making $200,000 or...
September 28, 2021Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Neal’s Tax Bill Is Big And Bold, With Hits and Misses

The most important thing to know about the tax bill proposed by House Ways & Means Committee Richard Neal (D-MA) is that it’s big. The...
September 14, 2021Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Would Extending More Generous Tax Credits Increase The Number Of Non-Income Tax Payers?

Would Extending More Generous Tax Credits Increase The Number Of Non-Income Tax Payers? We know the pandemic and the policy response to it dramatically increased...
August 25, 2021Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The COVID-19 Pandemic Drove A Huge, But Temporary, Increase in Households That Did Not Pay Federal Income Tax

The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy response to it led to an extraordinary increase in the number of American households that owed no federal individual income tax in 2020. The Tax Policy Center estimates that last year more than 107 million households, or nearly 61 percent, owed no income tax or even received tax credits from the government.
August 18, 2021Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Biden Would Raise Taxes Substantially for High Income Households and Corporations, Cut Taxes for Families with Children, According to A New TPC Analysis

Nearly all of President Biden’s proposed tax increases would be borne by the highest income 1 percent of households--those making about $800,000 or more—according to...
June 9, 2021Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The Deficit Is Likely To Be Bigger Than Biden Projects, But Not Because Of A Rosy Economic Forecast

Those of us who have been writing about the federal budgets for too long remember the sad history of presidents trotting out wildly optimistic economic...
June 2, 2021Howard Gleckman