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TCJA

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Does the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Pass the Tests of Good Tax Policy?

On April 11, I testified before the congressional Joint Economic Committee on whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will help Unleash… America’s Economic...
April 12, 2018Mark J. Mazur
Business Taxes: TaxVox

Three Things You Should Know about the Buyback Furor

Record stock buybacks—driven in part by the corporate tax changes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—have sparked a media and political furor. Unfortunately,...
April 12, 2018Donald Marron
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Donald Lubick: Public Servant

The Tax Policy Center is hosting its third annual Symposium in honor of Donald C. Lubick. Given the chaos that defines tax policy these days,...
April 6, 2018C. Eugene Steuerle
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

The TCJA Has Replaced The 1986 Tax Act, But Is It Tax Reform?

In a recent TaxVox blog, my TPC colleague Eric Toder showed that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) effectively upended the key principle...
March 30, 2018Harvey Galper
State and Local Issues: TaxVox

How Taxpayers In Each State Will Fare Under the TCJA’s Individual Income Tax Provisions

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will cut individual income taxes for about two-thirds of US households in 2018, by an average of about $1,300...
March 28, 2018David Weiner
: TaxVox

So Far, The TCJA Seems To Be A Modest Plus For The Economy, But Evidence Remains Limited

For all the hype about more take-home pay, new corporate investment, and bonuses in the wake of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), what...
March 26, 2018Benjamin R. Page
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

How would the TCJA treat my family? The same, but different

Just two weeks ago we hosted my parents, siblings, their spouses, and their children for Thanksgiving. We didn’t talk much about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (our 15 mouths were too full of food). Maybe we should have.
December 6, 2017Renu Zaretsky