TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Individual Taxes

Is It Time To Rethink The Scale and Progressivity of the Tax System?

October 25, 2016 –
Is the US tax code both too small and too progressive? That’s the argument of Alan Viard and Sita Nataraj Slavov of the American Enterprise...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Clinton would increase the CTC for very low-income workers and young children

October 24, 2016 –
Hillary Clinton has proposed two important changes to the child tax credit (CTC). The first would phase in the credit starting with the first dollar...
Individual Taxes

How the EITC favors families with children

October 21, 2016 –
This post is part of the Tax Policy Center’s new series, Tax Line , which digs into the data behind the day’s most pressing tax...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How would candidates’ spending plans affect our GDP projections?

October 21, 2016 –
The Tax Policy Center, with the help of the Penn-Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), found that in the short-run Hillary Clinton’s tax increases would slow the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Do deficits matter? Trump says no, Clinton says yes (sort of)

October 20, 2016 –
The fiscal policy debate in the 2016 presidential election (yes, Virginia, there is a policy debate, even if you can’t hear it through the noise)...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Dynamic scoring modestly changes the revenue effects of the Clinton and Trump tax plans

October 19, 2016 –
Incorporating the macroeconomic effects of the tax plans of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has little effect on their revenue implications, according to updated analyses...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Trump Adviser Comments on Taxes and Trade Turn Economic Theory On Its Head

October 14, 2016 –
Yesterday’s presentation by Donald Trump's economic adviser, Peter Navarro, at the Tax Policy Center’s discussion of the presidential candidate tax plans reminded me of a...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Clinton and Trump advisers display wide differences in tax policy debate

October 13, 2016 –
Imagine you are an undecided voter who wants to understand the tax policies of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. You might have tuned in to...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How much do you know about Clinton’s and Trump’s tax plans?

October 12, 2016 –
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have proposed major changes to US tax policy, but they have dramatically different visions of what the tax code should...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

What Trump’s and Buffett’s tax returns say about how the wealthy are taxed

October 12, 2016 –
The individual income tax has never taxed the very wealthy much. Donald Trump may have claimed huge losses starting in the early-1990s, but, like other...