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Business Taxes

Too Many IRS Audits of Big Businesses Result In No Change In Tax Liability

April 19, 2021 –
Change can be good, right? Maybe or maybe not. But if you are the Internal Revenue Service, “no change” audits never are good. And, for...
Individual Taxes

Delivering Tax Benefits to People Who Are Experiencing Homelessness

April 15, 2021 –
By approving a third round of economic impact payments (EIPs) and expanding refundability of the Child Tax Credit, Congress has made refundable tax credits a...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How Biden’s No-Tax Pledge Could Sink His Climate Change Initiative

April 9, 2021 –
Nowhere is President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda more in conflict than in his triple aim of funding a major infrastructure initiative , attacking climate change...
Business Taxes

Build Back a Better Revenue Base with Environmental Taxes

April 7, 2021 –
Once the US economy recovers from the COVID-19 crisis, the federal government will need significant additional revenues to reduce its ballooning deficit. Congress and President...
Individual Taxes

Should All Families Receive the Child Tax Credit?

April 7, 2021 –
Last month, my parents received their third round of economic impact payments through the American Rescue Plan (ARP). They decided to turn the proceeds into their own "stimulus payments" for their seven grandchildren.
Business Taxes

If Congress Wants the IRS To Collect More Tax from The Rich, It Needs to Pass Better Laws

April 5, 2021 –
Last week, a group of prominent academic and government economists published a study that estimated the top 1 percent of Americans hide more than 20...
Business Taxes

Biden Follows Through on His Campaign Promise of Big Tax Hikes on US Corporations

March 31, 2021 –
Biden Follows Through On His Campaign Promise Of Big Tax Hikes on US Corporations US-based multinational corporations can’t say they were not warned. President Biden...
Federal Budget and Economy

Congress Missed the Mark When It Made Some Unemployment Benefits Tax-Free But Reduced Future Assistance

March 31, 2021 –
When Congress enacted the American Rescue Plan (ARP), it included an implicit deal: It agreed to reduce the level of additional future weekly federal unemployment...
Individual Taxes

How Well Is the IRS Implementing A Retroactive Unemployment Benefit Tax Break?

March 30, 2021 –
By including in the American Rescue Plan (ARP) a provision to exempt up to $10,200 of last year’s unemployment benefits from federal income tax, Congress...
State and Local Issues

The Big Stakes for Treasury’s American Rescue Plan State Tax Cut Guidance

March 26, 2021 –
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) sends $350 billion to state and local governments with very few strings attached. Unlike the CARES Act , which originally...
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Brief

State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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