Tax Policy Center

Tax Policy Center

Individual Taxes: TaxVox
How much money do you make? Many Americans know what their wages and salary are. But they might be surprised to know that, on average,...
August 1, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
In a speech today in Chattanooga TN, President Obama made congressional Republicans an offer they could refuse. And they did . By doing so, Obama...
July 30, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The Tax Policy Center has changed the way it calculates income . The new definition, which TPC calls “expanded cash income” or ECI, will raise...
July 25, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Because politicians seem unwilling to confront specific individual tax preferences, it is likely that any broad-based tax reform will be based on across-the-board curbs on...
July 10, 2013Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
It isn’t easy to get up-to-date information about state and local economic conditions. Now, a new one-stop resource from The Tax Policy Center’s State and...
July 9, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
A new analysis by the Government Accountability Office finds that in 2010 large U.S. corporations paid an average effective tax rate on their worldwide income...
July 2, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The other day, President Obama proposed a modest and largely aspirational plan to respond to climate change. Unlike some of his past efforts, it did...
July 1, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
For a decade, Congress has been debating how to tax managers of private equity firms. The argument is pretty familiar to tax wonks: Should these...
June 25, 2013Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
If Congress is going to reform the tax code, it will take an enormous amount of hard work and a lot of luck. The stars,...
June 13, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Two interesting new papers from the Congressional Research Service highlight a major challenge faced by any tax reform that reduces itemized deductions to help pay...
May 28, 2013Howard Gleckman