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Individual Taxes

Tax Reform: Going Long v. Going Prudent

May 30, 2012 –
Make no mistake, any attempt at tax reform will be a heavy lift. But an interesting behind-the-scenes debate is brewing among reformers over just how...
Individual Taxes

Billions in Tax Refund Fraud--and How to Stop Most of it

May 29, 2012 –
The Treasury may be losing as much as $5 billion a year from fraudulent tax refund claims—and most of that fraud is entirely preventable. The...
Individual Taxes

A New Urban Institute Calculator Shows What Taxes and Transfers Mean for Low-Income Families

May 25, 2012 –
State taxes and transfers can be an important form of assistance for low-income families. But the amount of government help varies widely among the states...
Federal Budget and Economy

How a Delay in the Debt Limit Will Change America’s Fiscal Politics

May 24, 2012 –
By now, you know the great taxmageddon story: At the end of the year, a lame duck Congress and a new or newly re-elected president...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

A Path Forward on Tax Reform

May 22, 2012 –
At the National Tax Association’s spring conference last week, former Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Holtz-Eakin laid out a path to tax reform in four...
Individual Taxes

California’s Budget Crisis: Part XII

May 21, 2012 –
Summer is here and that can mean only one thing – the start of movie season. Well, that and California’s annual budget mess. Like a...
Federal Budget and Economy

Fixing Medicare's Double-Counting Problem

May 18, 2012 –
Last week I argued that budgeting for Medicare's hospital insurance program is flawed . Today, I offer two ways to fix it (and reject a...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Boehner/Obama Fiscal Brawl

May 17, 2012 –
Listening to Barack Obama and John Boehner over the past few days put me in mind of two testosterone-addled 22-year olds preparing for a bar...
Individual Taxes

Taxing the London Whale

May 15, 2012 –
Now that a once-obscure J.P. Morgan Chase derivatives trader named Bruno Iksil has become infamous as the London Whale, I suppose it is time to...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Will Obama’s Views on Tax Reform “Evolve” Too?

May 10, 2012 –
Robin, thanks for asking me back on Good Morning America to talk about my views on tax reform. After we spoke about gay marriage, I...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

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

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