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The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Camp’s Plan to Consolidate Higher Education Tax Incentives

March 3, 2014 –
The comprehensive tax reform plan recently released by House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) contains a noteworthy proposal to reform tax benefits...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Camp Tax Reform Would Create New Challenges for States

March 3, 2014 –
House Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp’s recent tax reform plan would raise the cost of doing business for many state and local governments. Camp...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Dave Camp's pitch to overhaul U.S. taxes: An impossible dream?

February 28, 2014 –
Unlike many previous Republican proposals to cut taxes, the Michigan congressman specifies how government would pay for them. This is critical, but it's not pretty...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Hidden Taxes in the Camp Proposal

February 27, 2014 –
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) has produced an impressive tax reform plan that eliminates most loopholes, deductions, and credits. But the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How Does Dave Camp Pay for Individual Tax Cuts? By Raising Revenue from Corporations

February 27, 2014 –
Key elements of the tax code rewrite proposed yesterday by House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) came straight from the playbook of...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Camp Defines Private Equity as a Business, Would Boost Taxes on Carried Interest

February 27, 2014 –
In the tax reform roadmap he released yesterday, House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) targeted the trillion dollar private equity industry. Not...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Dave Camp’s Tax Plan: A Brave Start But Lots of Gimmicks

February 26, 2014 –
Give House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) all the credit in the world for years of hard work developing his tax reform...
Individual Taxes

An Updated Marriage Bonus and Penalty Calculator

February 21, 2014 –
Just in time for this year’s tax filing season (but a bit late for St. Valentine’s Day), the Tax Policy Center has updated its marriage...
Individual Taxes

How 19 Million Uninsured Tax Filers Could Get ACA Coverage

February 20, 2014 –
Back in November, I suggested that tax prep firms might be a useful portal for low-income people to get insurance coverage through the Affordable Care...
State and Local Issues

How To Fix Washington, DC's Tax System

February 18, 2014 –
An advisory commission has recommended some interesting changes to the District of Columbia’s tax system. The commission’s proposals may provide some useful lessons for other...