Tax Policy Center

itemized deductions

Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Could A Boost In The Standard Deduction Kill The Mortgage And Charitable Deductions? The House Ways & Means Committee may be about to approve a...
June 12, 2023Howard GleckmanRobert McClelland
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
During each presidential election, the Tax Policy Center analyzes the tax policies of the two major candidates. This year, TPC estimated the effects of Democratic...
October 27, 2020Robert McClellandMark J. Mazur
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Congress can’t seem to end its love affair with tax deductions. For a brief period starting with then-House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp’s...
May 28, 2020Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The Trump Administration is (very quietly) looking at ways to reinvigorate the flagging private long-term care (LTC) insurance market. The recommendations are expected to surface...
May 24, 2019Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
One of the most significant provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was its near-repeal of the Individual Alternative Minimum Tax, that complex parallel...
October 2, 2018Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
When Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in December, it forced states to confront major tax policy issues of their own ,...
April 23, 2018Richard C. Auxier
: TaxVox
As Tax Policy Center analyses have shown , the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) treats people of similar incomes in very different ways, depending...
January 22, 2018John IselinPhilip Stallworth
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Despite all their rhetoric about closing special interest loopholes, politicians love nothing more than delivering federal largesse to favored constituents. But with new spending programs...
November 28, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Unlike many previous Republican proposals to cut taxes, the Michigan congressman specifies how government would pay for them. This is critical, but it's not pretty...
February 28, 2014William G. Gale
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
The Tax Policy Center’s new tables showing the revenue and distributional effects of capping itemized deductions have received a great deal of attention since we...
October 19, 2012Roberton C. Williams