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Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The IRS Audit Rate is Plummeting. Does It Matter?

The IRS has reported that its overall audit rate is continuing to fall , especially for businesses and high-income individual taxpayers. The Service audits less...
April 2, 2018Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The TCJA's Really, Really Big Postcard

The Trump Administration continues to tout the idea that, thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Americans will be able to fill out...
January 29, 2018Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox

The TCJA’s Significant Tax Benefits for Employees Who Become Contract Workers

Jessica Sayles, a certified public accountant, works in her office in Las Vegas.
January 17, 2018Steven M. Rosenthal
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

TPC Creates Some Examples Of How Families Would Fare Under The House And Senate Tax Bills

The House and Senate versions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would change the tax bills of households in very different ways. To show...
December 13, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Seven Take-Aways From The Senate’s Tax Cut and Jobs Act

Seven Take-Aways From The Senate’s Tax Cut and Jobs Act The Senate’s version of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) is a big,...
December 5, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The House GOP Tax Bill Is Mostly A Business Tax Cut That Will Create Both Winners and Losers

House Republicans made their tax bill public today. Boiled down to the basics, it is a mid-sized tax cut--aimed mostly at businesses and their owners...
November 2, 2017Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Does Learning About Taxes Change People’s Views About Fairness?

What makes people think the tax system is fair? In a fascinating new study , my Tax Policy Center colleague Vanessa Williamson found that people’s...
March 29, 2017Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How Russia and the Affordable Care Act Are Killing Tax Reform

Tax reform was always going to be a tough sell in 2017. But now, thanks to the seemingly bottomless controversy over the Trump campaign’s Russia...
March 6, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Who'd Be Hit By Trump Cap on Itemized Deductions?

A key piece of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign tax plan was a cap on itemized deductions. The proposal, which would bar singles from deducting more...
November 22, 2016Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Is It Time To Rethink The Scale and Progressivity of the Tax System?

Is the US tax code both too small and too progressive? That’s the argument of Alan Viard and Sita Nataraj Slavov of the American Enterprise...
October 25, 2016Howard Gleckman