Tax Policy Center

Tax Policy Center

Individual Taxes: TaxVox
As House Republicans engage in a nasty internal battle over whether to raise the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, a...
September 7, 2023Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
As usual, the politicians are missing the point: Success or failure of the IRS’s ambitious plan to spend $80 billion in new money won’t be...
April 19, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The revenue provisions of President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget would lower after-tax incomes by an average of about $2,300 next year, according to a...
March 23, 2023Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
This blog has been revised, reflecting TPC’s recalculated analysis of proposals to reduce business taxes that are under discussion in Congress. TPC’s initial analysis over-estimated...
December 7, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
During the recent congressional election campaign, House Republicans said one of their top priorities would be to make permanent the individual tax changes in the...
November 30, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
After dramatically rising during the worst of the pandemic, the number of households who pay no federal income tax has fallen sharply. It will remain...
October 27, 2022Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
As Congress is about to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Washington is once again having a breathless debate over very little. This one is about...
August 12, 2022Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
Scrambling for a politically acceptable way to raise revenue to pay for a scaled-down social spending and climate bill, Senate Democrats are considering a plan...
July 14, 2022Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox
On April 1, 2002, a press release announced, “The Tax Policy Center, a new joint venture between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution” was...
April 1, 2022Leonard E. Burman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Democrats started this year with President Biden’s proposal to raise taxes on high-income households as a way to help pay for an ambitious social spending...
December 21, 2021Howard Gleckman