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Individual Taxes

What The Debt Ceiling Agreement Means For The IRS

June 1, 2023 –
What policymakers give, policymakers can take away. Nine months after Congress enacted President Biden’s proposal to boost the Internal Revenue Service’s 10-year budget by $80...
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Business Taxes

Does the “Chicken Tax” encourage people to purchase larger trucks?

May 31, 2023 –
The “Chicken Tax” is a 25 percent tariff on imported light-trucks that was first imposed in 1964, in response to tariffs levied by some European...
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Federal Budget and Economy

The Debt Limit Battle Produced Plenty of Drama But Few Budget Cuts

May 31, 2023 –
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden reached an agreement over the weekend to limit spending for a small fraction of the federal...
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Individual Taxes

Will Artificial Intelligence Be Able to Prepare Our Tax Returns?

May 18, 2023 –
In case you’ve somehow missed the flurry of articles describing the dramatic advance of artificial intelligence, we appear to be at the dawn of a...
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Federal Budget and Economy

Defaulting On The Debt Could Be “Catastrophic” – Or Worse

May 11, 2023 –
Republican leaders in Congress have refused to raise the federal debt limit unless the Biden Administration agrees to major spending reductions to reduce the national...
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Federal Budget and Economy

If The US Avoids Default, You May Want To Thank Car Dealers, Real Estate Agents, and Local Bankers

May 9, 2023 –
If the country avoids breaching the debt limit in the next few months , you may not have Wall Street volatility to thank. Or even...
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Federal Budget and Economy

House GOP Plan To Repeal IRA Incentives Would Hike Taxes For Households, Tilted Toward High-Income Earners

May 3, 2023 –
House Republicans on April 26 passed legislation on a party-line vote a bill that would rescind many Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) clean energy tax incentives in exchange...
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Individual Taxes

To E-Bike, Or Not To E-Bike? Should That Be A Tax Question?

May 3, 2023 –
Whether the goal is to provide broad access to e-bikes or to reduce carbon emissions and road congestion, a federal tax credit rewarding an individual’s e-bike purchase is not the best policy tool.
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Federal Budget and Economy

House Republicans Rethink Tax Increases, At Least For A Minute

May 2, 2023 –
House Republicans have, at least temporarily, redefined what they mean by a tax increase. By doing so, they have turned their backs on their decades-old...
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Federal Budget and Economy

How Congress Is Trying to Finesse The Debt Limit While Ignoring The Debt

April 27, 2023 –
You can see where this is going. As the US gets ever closer to hitting its borrowing limit sometime this summer, Congress is stumbling towards...
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Brief

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

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

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