Tax Policy Center

Tax Policy Center

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

TPC Finds the Ways & Means Pandemic Relief Plan Mostly Helps Low- and Moderate-Income Households, But Higher Income Families Benefit as Well

The major tax provisions of the pandemic relief bill proposed by House Ways & Means Committee Democrats on January 8 would reduce 2021 federal taxes...
February 10, 2021Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

How Biden Can Expand And Better Target the Child Tax Credit

In a recent blog , I looked at two ways Congress could refocus those $1,400 per person relief payments on those who need it most...
February 2, 2021Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox

There Are Ways Congress Could Better Target A New Round of Pandemic Relief Payments

Congressional Republicans and some Democrats are urging lawmakers to better target President Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan for new pandemic relief. And they are right: It...
January 26, 2021Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Would Stimulus Payments Have Been Bigger If Trump And Democrats Called Them Tax Relief?

One of the very oddest things about the bizarre debate over whether to increase the latest round of direct government payments from $600 per person...
January 5, 2021Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Biden Proposed Raising Social Security Payroll Taxes By $740 Billion…And Still Got Elected President

An amazing thing happened in this year’s presidential election. A major party candidate proposed raising Social Security payroll taxes. And won.
November 17, 2020Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Could a Divided Congress Approve Biden’s Ambitious Tax Agenda? Maybe More Than You Think

The conventional wisdom is that President-elect Joe Biden’s ambitious tax agenda will die in a GOP Senate, but some elements could pass.
November 9, 2020Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Surprise: Biden and Trump Both Back A Modest Middle-Income Tax Cut

In one key respect, their plans appear surprisingly similar.
October 28, 2020Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

TPC Updates Its Analysis: Biden Would Raise Taxes by $2.1 Trillion, Nearly All On Business and High-Income Households

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s current campaign plan would raise taxes by $2.1 trillion over the next decade, about 0.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product.
October 15, 2020Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Fewer Than 0.5 Percent of Very High-Income Households Paid as Little Tax As Donald Trump

Following The New York Times blockbuster series on President Trump’s personal finances—especially the revelation that he paid just $750 in federal income tax in 2016...
October 2, 2020Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Free File Is An Easy Way For Government To Get Coronavirus Payments To Non-Filers

The federal government’s new coronavirus payments to adults and children will provide much-needed cash to 90 percent of US households. Unfortunately, tens of millions of...
March 30, 2020Howard GleckmanElaine Maag