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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
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Happy New Year. And welcome to 2019, a year when several important tax policy issues are likely to hit the news. Watch for these: Whether...
January 3, 2019Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
What is the difference between Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson, and President Trump and Congress? Wilson, you may recall, spent last Sunday handing out an estimated...
July 26, 2018Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
For the second time in a week, House Republicans are pushing policy changes that seem to conflict with key elements of last year’s Tax Cuts...
July 24, 2018Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Just two weeks ago we hosted my parents, siblings, their spouses, and their children for Thanksgiving. We didn’t talk much about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (our 15 mouths were too full of food). Maybe we should have.
December 6, 2017Renu Zaretsky
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
“Here’s why your golf purchases could become tax deductible.” The Golf Digest headline popped up in my review of tax news a couple of weeks ago. Tax policy can be confusing, but this blew my mind. I married into a family of golfers, and I like golf (sometimes I even love it), but how on earth could my husband or I deduct the cost of our golf purchases?
June 1, 2016Renu Zaretsky
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Most of the 43 percent of Americans who the Tax Policy Center projects will pay no federal income tax this year make very little money...
September 5, 2013Roberton C. Williams