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Individual Taxes

Six Ways to Revise The Child Tax Credit

April 12, 2016 –
The child tax credit (CTC) is an important subsidy for low- and moderate income families with children. But lawmakers and policy analysts are looking...
Business Taxes

This Is the Easiest Way the U.S. Can Stop Corporate Tax Dodgers

April 12, 2016 –
Collect a corporate exit tax. Last week, the New York-based drugmaker Pfizer scuttled its proposed $150 billion merger with Irish-based competitor...
Business Taxes

Treasury’s New Regulations are an Important Shift in U.S. Tax Policy

April 12, 2016 –
Treasury’s new regulations limit the ability of foreign-based multinationals to reduce taxable profits on U.S.-source income. This is a major...
Individual Taxes

How Americans Learn The Wrong Lessons from Tax Day

April 11, 2016 –
Next week marks the end of an arduous annual civic ritual, the filing of income tax returns. It should come as no surprise that the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Good Tax Ideas From Failed Presidential Candidates

April 8, 2016 –
As you think about the ambitious tax ideas being proposed by this season’s presidential hopefuls, keep this in mind: Sometimes, far-reaching tax...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Case of the Hidden Import Tax

April 6, 2016 –
My 11-year-old daughter and I were shopping for sneakers recently, and we wanted to stick to a budget. We found a pair she liked, and...
Business Taxes

Treasury tackles earnings stripping

April 5, 2016 –
Yesterday, Treasury finally announced its promised earnings stripping rules-- and they go well beyond just trying to curb tax-motivated corporate...
Individual Taxes

EITC Expansion Backed By Obama and Ryan Could Penalize Marriage For Many Low-Income Workers

April 5, 2016 –
President Barack Obama and Speaker Paul Ryan have proposed similar expansions of the earned income tax credit (EITC) for low-income workers without...
Individual Taxes

How DC gave you three extra days to file your taxes this year

April 4, 2016 –
Don't say the nation's capital never does anything for you. Thanks to a District of Columbia (DC) holiday, the IRS moved Tax Day back three days to...
State and Local Issues

Note to Federal Tax Reformers: Don’t Forget the States

March 31, 2016 –
While most presidential candidates are proposing big, bold changes to the federal tax code, they seem to be paying little attention to what those...
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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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