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The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Individual Taxes

How the Tax System Could Help the Middle Class

March 13, 2014 –
Today I testified at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on “Innovative Ideas to Strengthen and Expand the Middle Class.” The middle class certainly needs help...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Mike Lee’s Tax Plan: An Intriguing Idea That Would Add $2.4 Trillion to the Deficit

March 12, 2014 –
An ambitious tax reform plan proposed by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) would provide generous new tax credits for families with children and repeal the Alternative...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Many Moving Parts of Camp’s Tax Reform for Low-Income Families

March 11, 2014 –
House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp’s tax reform plan would make many changes to the two major refundable tax credits aimed at assisting...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Tax Reform’s Quiet Protectionism

March 10, 2014 –
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp has offered a detailed and thoughtful set of proposals on international tax reform, as did former Senate Finance...
Individual Taxes

Stark Variation in Taxpayer Use of Itemized Deductions, County by County

March 7, 2014 –
Taxpayer use of itemized deductions varies widely by location, according to a new analysis of 2007 IRS data. In about one in ten counties, 11...
Federal Budget and Economy

Forgotten but Not Gone: The Long-Term Fiscal Imbalance

March 6, 2014 –
Over the past few years, the long-term fiscal situation has improved. With the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (in early January,...
Individual Taxes

A Web Tool to Calculate ACA Tax Penalties

March 6, 2014 –
The deadline is looming: If you don’t have approved insurance coverage by March 31 (and are not exempt from the requirement), the Affordable Care Act...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Macro Effects of Camp’s Tax Reform

March 4, 2014 –
When House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp rolled out his tax reform last week, the Joint Committee on Taxation evaluated its macroeconomic impacts. Using...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

A Camp-ground for Tax Reformers

March 4, 2014 –
By proposing a far-reaching and detailed rewrite of the Revenue Code, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) did something very few elected...
Federal Budget and Economy

A Tale of Three Agendas: Obama, Camp, and Ryan

March 4, 2014 –
Over the past week, three senior Washington lawmakers released foundational documents that describe both their agendas and their perspectives on government. On one level, they...
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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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