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Individual Taxes

Advancing Child Tax Credit Payments Makes Good Sense, But the IRS Will Need Funds to Pull It Off.

February 9, 2021 –
The plan to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) proposed yesterday by House Ways & Means Committee Democrats included an important new feature—the IRS would...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Could the United States Pay for Reparations?

February 3, 2021 –
A few years ago, Ta-Nehesi Coates wrote a powerful essay, “The Case for Reparations” for The Atlantic . Reparations, he affirmed, would help close the...
Individual Taxes

What Do You Think About Taxes?

February 3, 2021 –
We’re one month into 2021. There’s a pandemic, an economic slump, and a new president and vice president. Congress is considering another pandemic relief bill and may address new tax proposals too. And tax season starts next week. There’s no time like the present to ask my friends and family what they think about taxes!
Individual Taxes

How Biden Can Expand And Better Target the Child Tax Credit

February 2, 2021 –
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

Another Way to Target Pandemic Relief Payments: Help Those Who Were Financially Hurt the Most In 2020

February 1, 2021 –
Some Senate Republicans say they want to scale back President Biden’s proposed $1,400 relief payments. Last week, my Tax Policy Center colleague Howard Gleckman proposed...

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

January 26, 2021 –
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...
Individual Taxes

A Tax Credit to Fix Capitalism

January 21, 2021 –
Capitalism produces a dizzying array of products and, in the process, generates an enormous amount of wealth. But capitalism creates a problem in that the...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Delicate Deficit Dance That May Define Biden’s Presidency

January 20, 2021 –
It was fascinating to watch Treasury-secretary designate Janet Yellen and several Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee dance their delicate deficit dance at Yellen’s...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Much Has the Pandemic Affected President-elect Biden’s Opportunity to Chart a New Course?

January 19, 2021 –
Largely as a consequence of the pandemic, trillions of dollars have been flowing out of the Treasury’s coffers. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects the...

Biden's Huge Pandemic Relief Plan Would Cut Taxes for Low- and Moderate-Income Households

January 15, 2021 –
President-elect Joe Biden proposed a new $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan last night that would substantially cut taxes for low- and moderate-income households, especially those...
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State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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