Tax Policy Center

Ron Wyden

Business Taxes: TaxVox
While Congress is likely to nit-pick the compromise business and child tax credit tax bill designed by top Capitol Hill tax writers, there is broad...
January 23, 2024Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Under a plan to temporarily expand the child tax credit (CTC), unveiled yesterday by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Ways and...
January 18, 2024John Buhl
Business Taxes: TaxVox
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert (R-AZ) announced they are looking into political abuses by non-profit...
August 16, 2023Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Did President Biden and other Democrats read 18 th century revolutionary Tom Paine before they proposed their taxes on extreme wealth? Hard to know, but...
May 10, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
How to tax the rich? Let us count the ways. New taxes on capital income? Higher income tax rates? A wealth tax? Some mash-up of...
March 31, 2022Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
With improbable Democratic wins in both Georgia Senate runoff elections, President-elect Joe Biden has an opportunity to govern with a congressional majority—though one that will...
January 6, 2021Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox
Senate Democrats have rallied around the Working Families Tax Relief Act (WFTRA) that would significantly expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and more modestly...
April 22, 2019Elaine Maag
: TaxVox
On July 18, four former assistant Treasury secretaries for tax policy testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the prospects and challenges of achieving tax...
July 19, 2017Mark J. Mazur
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Top Ways & Means Staffer Janice Mays Surveys The Future of Tax Reform Last week, Politico’ s Brian Faler did a great interview (paywall) with Janice Mays, the long-time Democratic staff director for the House Ways & Means Committee. Janice, who has just retired after a remarkable 40 years
May 31, 2016Howard Gleckman