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Individual Taxes

No Estate Tax, But 2010 Still May Not Be So Great for Heirs

September 30, 2010 –
No joke: The other day a financial planner told me about a client who asked if he could rework his father’s end-of-life advance directive to...
Individual Taxes

Will Congress Miss Another Tax Deadline? AMT Patch Déjà Vu

September 29, 2010 –
The alternative minimum tax , America’s favorite stealth levy, threatens to hit 27 million taxpayers this year if Congress doesn’t patch it once again. Given...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Not to Create New Jobs

September 28, 2010 –
It is a good thing the “Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act ,” which died in the Senate today, was never supposed to pass...
Federal Budget and Economy

The GOP Pledge: Smaller Government, Bigger Deficits

September 23, 2010 –
Now it is official. Neither Democrats nor Republicans will run in 2010 on a serious platform to address the budget deficit . We knew the...
Individual Taxes

The Obama Tax Plan: Who's in the Crosshairs?

September 21, 2010 –
President Obama’s plan to raise taxes on the nation’s highest income households may not quite mean what you think. A closer look suggests that fewer...
Federal Budget and Economy

Mitch McConnell, the Bush Tax Cuts, and the Future of Government

September 16, 2010 –
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wants to permanently extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts. He’s also rejected even modest efforts by President Obama...
Federal Budget and Economy

In the Tea Party Free Zone: A Serious Debate on the Budget Deficit

September 14, 2010 –
America ’s long-term fiscal challenge will drive the nation’s domestic policy for years to come. But in an age of partisan noise and name-calling, it...
Individual Taxes

TPC's New Tax Calculator

September 10, 2010 –
Long in the works, the Tax Policy Center’s new Tax Calculator debuted on our website this week. We designed it to help taxpayers, analysts, and...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Tax Cut Smackdown: Obama v. Boehner (and Orszag)

September 9, 2010 –
The outlines of the Great Tax Debate of 2010 are coming clear. Yesterday, President Obama insisted on permanently extending the 2001-2003 tax cuts for those...
Individual Taxes

Obama’s Business Tax Cuts

September 7, 2010 –
With the economy stalled and his party’s November electoral chances sagging, President Obama is rolling out a new plan to boost growth—a mix of infrastructure...
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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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