TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Individual Taxes

The Real Story About Apple’s Taxes

May 21, 2013 –
The remarkable thing about the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee’s report on Apple Inc.’s corporate tax avoidance is how unremarkable it is. Because Apple is so...
Individual Taxes

Get IRS Out of the Business of Regulating Political Speech

May 16, 2013 –
A final thought, I hope, on the IRS/tea party scandal: Why do we want the IRS regulating political speech? It seems crazy on its face,...
Individual Taxes

The IRS and the Tea Party: Treasury Report Finds Big Bungling but Small Scandal

May 15, 2013 –
The IRS’s botched processing of requests for tax-exempt status by political groups isn’t the new Watergate. In fact, as scandals go, it is barely the...
Individual Taxes

IRS and the Targeting of the Tea Party and Other Groups

May 14, 2013 –
To help clarify whether IRS incorrectly, unfairly, or illegally targeted the Tea Party and other conservative groups, here are the answers to a few basic...
Individual Taxes

The IRS Was Wrong to Single Out Tea Parties, But Many Political Groups Should Not be Tax-Exempt

May 13, 2013 –
Let’s start with the obvious. Those IRS employees who singled out conservative groups for scrutiny over their tax-exempt status were wrong, wrong, wrong. Any whiff...
Individual Taxes

Will the Slowdown in Health Cost Growth Change the Budget Debate?

May 9, 2013 –
Upon these three facts everyone agrees: 1) After a long period of explosive increases, health cost growth has slowed markedly in recent years. 2) A...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Joint Committee’s Report on Tax Reform: Must-read for Policy Geeks

May 7, 2013 –
If you are a tax geek, or even a normal person who wants to keep up with the ongoing debate over restructuring the tax code,...
Federal Budget and Economy

Immigration, Dynamic Scoring, and CBO

May 3, 2013 –
Immigration policy poses an unusual challenge for the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation. If Congress allows more people into the United...
Individual Taxes

A New Way to Address the International Tax Mess

May 2, 2013 –
There may be no more vexing challenge in the Revenue Code than the taxation of foreign transactions of multinational companies. Most everyone agrees that the...
Individual Taxes

How to Improve the Tax Subsidy for Home Ownership

April 30, 2013 –
Last week, at the request of the House Ways and Means Committee, I testified on how Congress could reform the mortgage interest deduction, a popular...