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The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Individual Taxes

"Taxes In America" Is A Valuable And Painless Look At How The US Raises Revenue

March 10, 2020 –
If you are not a public finance economist and want to understand how the US tax code works, pick up the new version of Taxes...
State and Local Issues

Critics Argue The Property Tax Is Unfair. Do They Have A Point?

March 9, 2020 –
Last month, an Idaho lawmaker called the property tax “ inherently evil ” and suggested the state repeal it and replace the foregone revenue with...
Individual Taxes

Charitable Giving Appears To Have Fallen In 2018, Despite Treasury Claims

March 6, 2020 –
On March 3, the Treasury Department put out a press release saying that 2018’s charitable giving “appeared largely unchanged from previous years,” despite a “concern...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Biden Would Raise Taxes by $4 Trillion Over 10 Years, Mostly on The Highest-Income Households

March 5, 2020 –
Former Vice President Joe Biden would raise taxes by nearly $4 trillion over the next decade, about 1.5 percent of gross domestic product.
Business Taxes

Corporate Taxes: Are They Fair? Who Really Pays Them, And When?

March 4, 2020 –
When it comes to corporate taxes, what’s “fair?” Do taxpayers have a sense of what major corporations pay in taxes? And when corporations pay income taxes, do we understand who ultimately bears that tax burden?
Federal Budget and Economy

Tax Cuts Won’t Treat the Coronavirus or Rebuild Broken Supply Chains

March 3, 2020 –
President Trump and some members of Congress are floating the idea of new tax cuts to respond to the growing threat of the novel Coronavirus...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How the Tax Policy Center Analyzes Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans

March 3, 2020 –
The process behind the numbers we present

What Do Federal Taxes Have To Do With Your Public Transit?

March 2, 2020 –
At a recent forum on infrastructure, Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer discussed their proposals to bolster spending on...
Business Taxes

Let The Dust Settle On The TCJA Before Judging Its Effectiveness

February 24, 2020 –
TPC’s Steve Rosenthal and American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Aparna Mathur recently debated the corporate tax provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
Individual Taxes

Expanding The EITC To Include Family Caregivers

February 21, 2020 –
A handful of the remaining Democratic presidential candidates remain committed to increasing the earned income tax credit (EITC), particularly for workers without children at home...
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Brief

The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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