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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Latest Trump tax plan adds trillions to the national debt, Clinton plan trims deficits by taxing the wealthy

October 11, 2016 –
Two new Tax Policy Center reports quantify the dramatic contrast between the latest tax plans of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Clinton has proposed a...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Trump’s Phony Claim about Carried Interest

October 10, 2016 –
When asked in last night’s debate about what he would do to make sure the rich pay their fair share of taxes, Donald Trump said...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Did Donald Trump take advantage of the Gingrich-Edwards payroll tax loophole?

October 7, 2016 –
New information surfaced today that suggests that Donald Trump may not only have used aggressive tax planning to reduce his income tax bill to zero,...
Individual Taxes

Taxing carried interest just right

October 6, 2016 –
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agree on one thing: Managers of private equity funds should pay ordinary tax rates on their carried interest, not the...
Business Taxes

Lessons for the US From Canada’s Ambitious Carbon Tax Plan

October 6, 2016 –
Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped a bombshell: He’ll require every province to adopt either a carbon tax or develop a carbon...
State and Local Issues

The dark world of property assessment

October 5, 2016 –
In addition to his income tax troubles, Donald Trump has been engaged in a high-profile battle over property taxes. But he’s not the only business...
Individual Taxes

Transparency, Tax Returns, and Tax Reform: An Open and Shut Case?

October 4, 2016 –
The New York Times expose on Donald Trump’s apparent use of real estate tax losses to avoid paying income taxes for years has the political world abuzz. But the revelation raises another interesting question: Should any of our tax returns be private?
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Does Donald Trump pay taxes, ever?

October 3, 2016 –
Yesterday, the New York Times reported Donald Trump may have paid no federal income tax for nearly two decades. Leaked excerpts of Trump’s 1995 tax returns showed huge losses that the real estate mogul could have used to offset other income and zero out his income tax liability for many years.
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

What immigration means for our economic and fiscal future

September 29, 2016 –
Are immigrants good for the economy and the country’s balance sheet? That is the politically charged and analytically difficult question tackled in a three-year study...
Federal Budget and Economy

A value added tax is not a trade barrier

September 28, 2016 –
Donald Trump peddled an economic fallacy in Monday night’s Presidential debate by suggesting that Mexico’s value added tax, or VAT, gives its producers an advantage...
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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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