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individual income taxes

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

State Tax Debates Could Use Some (Customized) State Economic Data

Politicians love to make claims about tax policy. This tax cut will create jobs! That one forced the school district to fire teachers! But too...
November 12, 2019Richard C. Auxier
: TaxVox

Thirty Years Later: I’m Paying A Lower Tax Rate On More Income

As I finished my federal income tax return for 2018, I could not help but think about a return I filed 30 years ago. What...
April 23, 2019Mark J. Mazur
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Inside The Warren Vs. Harris Battle Over Tax Progressivity

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) both want to be elected President of the United States in 2020. Both believe that the federal...
January 28, 2019Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox

State Responses to the TCJA’s SALT Deduction Limit May Be Costly and Favor High-Income Residents

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) limits the itemized deduction for state and local taxes (SALT) on federal individual income tax returns to $10,000...
January 30, 2018Leonard E. BurmanFrank Sammartino
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The Downmarketing Of Tax Shelters

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has turned us into a nation of tax shelter hunters.
January 18, 2018Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The Public Does Not Seem to be Clamoring for a Tax Cut

Just as politicians and pundits are talking more about a tax cut and less about tax reform, the public seems happier with...
April 18, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Ten tax policy issues to watch in 2017

Making tax policy predictions for 2017 is especially perilous, given the uncertainties surrounding the incoming Trump Administration’s fiscal agenda. But since there is a good...
December 28, 2016Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

CBO Says Federal Tax Revenues Will Rise Because Of Higher Individual Income Taxes

Last week’s Congressional Budget Office fiscal update largely focused on the dangers of rising spending on health care, Social Security, and interest on the debt. But it also projected a significant increase in federal revenues, almost entirely due to a big bump in individual income taxes. CBO
September 3, 2014Roberton C. Williams
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Changing Government's Inflation Measure Would Raise Taxes as Much as it Would Cut Spending

Changing the way government adjusts spending and taxes for inflation is one of those issues that continues to hang around the edges of the budget...
March 5, 2013Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Should Working Class Families Pay Higher Tax so High Income People Can Pay Less?

Somehow, the fiscal cliff tax debate has taken a truly weird turn. No, not the politics, which long ago became a parody of Washington deal-making...
December 20, 2012Howard Gleckman