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Individual Taxes

Are Tax Breaks For Non-Profits And Their Donors Worth Saving?

February 20, 2020 –
The special tax treatment Congress has granted to non-profits and tax deduction it gives their donors are broken. So broken, in fact, that it is...
Business Taxes

Did TCJA’s Corporate Rate Cuts Work As Promised? No Signs Yet.

February 19, 2020 –
Last week , I debated American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Aparna Mathur on the question of whether the corporate income tax rate cuts from the...

How Can We Increase EITC Participation?

February 18, 2020 –
The IRS and Census Bureau estimate that only about 78 percent of people who are eligible for the earned income tax credit (EITC) get it...

What Do The Sanders-Biden Fights Over Protecting Social Security Mean?

February 14, 2020 –
One verb, multiple meanings

A Valentine’s Day Gift: An Updated Marriage Bonus And Penalty Tax Calculator

February 14, 2020 –
Does Valentine’s Day make you think about marriage? If you need one more reason to take that step, consider that Uncle Sam may already have...
Federal Budget and Economy

Trump’s 10 Year Revenue Estimates Would Fall By At Least $3 Trillion With Realistic Economic Assumptions

February 12, 2020 –
The Trump Administration would miss its revenue targets by at least $3 trillion under more realistic economic assumptions...
Individual Taxes

Trump’s Private Education Tax Credit Is Wrong-Headed And Badly Designed

February 11, 2020 –
I often see tax proposals that are well-intentioned but poorly designed. I sometimes see ideas that are well designed but wrong-headed. President Trump's private education tax credit is both...
State and Local Issues

We Don’t Know If The SALT Cap Is Driving Away Residents Of High-Tax States

February 10, 2020 –
Has the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act produced a mass migration...

Utah: Tax Reform Doesn’t Have To Be This Hard

February 7, 2020 –
States often fail at tax reform. But few efforts flop as spectacularly as Utah’s did. Utah passed sweeping tax reform legislation in December 2019. Utah...
Federal Budget and Economy

Despite Trump’s Claims, It Is Hard To See Much Economic Impact Two Years After Passage Of The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act

February 5, 2020 –
In last night’s State of the Union address , President Trump declared, “Our economy is the best it has ever been.” And, he added, “If...
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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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