individual taxes

What a Value-Added Tax Would Mean for the Tax Code—and the Economy

A well-designed Value-Added Tax could simplify the tax code for most households and finance significant reductions in corporate and individual income tax rates without adding...

January 31, 2012Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

What the Romney and Gingrich 1040s Tell Us About How We Tax The Rich

Ernest Hemingway: I am getting to know the rich. Mary Colum: I think you’ll find the only difference between the rich and other people is...

January 26, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

President Obama’s Tax Deform Agenda

For a while there, I thought President Obama was going to embrace tax reform in his State of the Union address. Instead, following the lead...

January 25, 2012Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The Santorum Plan: Tax Cuts for (Nearly) All

Rick Santorum, who may have won the Iowa caucuses after all, favors a huge broad-based tax cut that would massively increase the budget deficit. According...

January 19, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Congress Is Back, and So Are Its Battles Over Tax and Budget Policy

The least popular Congress in memory is back. I, personally, am thrilled. After a year in which lawmakers did almost nothing besides (barely) keeping the...

January 17, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

401(k) Plans May Be a Better Deal for Low Wage Workers Than We Thought

Tax-deferred 401(k) plans may be a better deal for low-income workers than economists thought, according to new research by my Tax Policy Center colleague Eric...

January 10, 2012Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Romney’s Tax Plan: Big Benefits for the Wealthy and Higher Deficits

A new Tax Policy Center analysis finds that Mitt Romney’s tax plan would cut taxes for millions of households but bestow most of its benefits...

January 5, 2012Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Rick Santorum’s Tax Plan

With Rick Santorum surging in Iowa, it is a good time to take a look at his tax agenda . While his revenue plan has...

January 3, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Whatever Happened to All Those Expiring Tax Breaks?

In two days, 53 targeted tax breaks will, officially at least, die. By the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation’s count , that’s the number of...

December 29, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Rethinking the Way We Tax Charities and Those Who Give to Them

It is that time of year when we celebrate with family, remember all we have to be thankful for, and scramble to squeeze out those...

December 27, 2011Howard Gleckman