Tax Policy Center

racial equity

Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The Internal Revenue Code generally does not refer to race or ethnicity, but federal income taxes may contribute to racial disparities when factors that affect...
September 28, 2023Janet HoltzblattLaura KawanoRobert McClellandGabriella Garriga
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan (D) recently proposed raising the city’s tax on vacant or undeveloped land while reducing taxes on buildings by 30 percent. The...
July 24, 2023Lillian HunterSadie BogradAravind Boddupalli
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The Internal Revenue Service has taken a major step forward with its release of a plan detailing how the agency will invest the ten-year $80...
April 11, 2023Janet Holtzblatt
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Most years, the Tax Policy Center celebrates Valentine Day with a whimsical analysis of the costs and benefits—tax-wise—of marriage. What’s new this year is that...
February 14, 2023Janet HoltzblattSwati JoshiNora CahillWilliam G. Gale
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The Internal Revenue Service does not ask tax filers about their race and ethnicity . But the US tax code can still widen racial income...
February 13, 2023Benjamin R. PageTracy GordonAravind Boddupalli
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
The past two years were a great time to make state tax policy. Booming revenue collections combined with hundreds of billions of dollars from Congress...
February 2, 2023Richard C. Auxier
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
A few weeks into their 2022 legislative sessions, the question in most state capitols across the country—from Connecticut to Utah —is not whether to cut...
February 9, 2022Richard C. Auxier
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
While advancing racial equity has been a top priority for the Biden Administration , mayors were attempting to tackle unequal access to wealth and opportunity...
December 27, 2021Aravind BoddupalliLourdes GermánTracy Gordon