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Individual Taxes

TaxVox’s Lump Of Coal Award For The Ten Worst Tax Policy Ideas of 2019

December 23, 2019 –
TaxVox’s Lump Of Coal Award For The Ten Worst Tax Policy Ideas of 2019 It is that time again. TaxVox somehow has whittled down its...
Federal Budget and Economy

Paul Volcker Taught Us How Tax And Monetary Policy Can Work Together To Enhance Growth

December 16, 2019 –
The recent passing of former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker serves as an important reminder of his critical role in ending stagflation in the late...

TPC’s New Guide To The 2020 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Policy Proposals: We’re Keeping Track So You Don’t Have To.

December 12, 2019 –
More than 300 tax ideas explained

The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Reduced Tax Expenditures But By Much Less Than The 1986 Tax Reform Act

December 10, 2019 –
For years, tax reformers have advocated reducing marginal tax rates, broadening the tax base, and eliminating provisions that provide special benefits to select forms of...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Democrats In Love With Big Tax Hikes Might Do Well To Remember Walter Mondale

December 9, 2019 –
When was the last time a presidential candidate promised to raise taxes?
Business Taxes

Will Trump's Response To France's Digital Tax Undercut The TCJA?

December 5, 2019 –
Not for the first time, President Trump has me confused about his tax policy. The signature legislation of his presidency was the 2017 Tax Cuts...
Individual Taxes

Naughty Or Nice: What If Santa Claus Had To Levy Sin Taxes?

December 4, 2019 –
Unlike Santa, governments want at least some residents to be a little “naughty” and continue do things it considers harmful so it can collect “sin taxes” on their behavior.
Federal Budget and Economy

Government Trust Funds Are Selling America Short

December 3, 2019 –
Federal lawmakers have found many ways to shift the responsibility for today’s spending to tomorrow’s taxpayers. But among the most important is their habit of...

Most 2020 Candidates Say They’d Fight Climate Change, But Leaders Don’t Back A Carbon Tax

November 26, 2019 –
Most presidential candidates acknowledge the urgency of climate change. Few would use tax policy to its full potential.
Individual Taxes

Don't Try To Mark To Market Capital Gains. Tax Unrealized Gains At Death Instead

November 21, 2019 –
Wealth taxation by other means
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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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