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The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Paying Taxes: Choice and Consequence

June 25, 2015 –
Will some private schools lose their tax-exempt status? If religious schools that ban same-sex relationships want to continue to do so, they might...
Individual Taxes

How to Pay Zero Taxes on Income of Millions of Dollars

June 24, 2015 –
Remember when people complained that hedge fund managers and private equity firm owners paid a lower tax rate than many workers? Or when Warren...

Estimates and the Economy: Let the Buyer Beware

June 24, 2015 –
The CBO, the ACA, and the economy: Precision doesn’t mean accuracy. Last Friday, the Congressional Budget Office projected that repeal of the...
Federal Budget and Economy

CBO Has No Idea What Repeal of the ACA Means for the Economy or the Deficit

June 23, 2015 –
This is what the Congressional Budget office really said about the budgetary and economic effects of repealing the Affordable Care Act: It has no...
Business Taxes

The Rich get Richer, with a Little Tax Help

June 22, 2015 –
Renaissance Technologies, an investment manager, is once again showing how to aggressively manipulate the tax system for its own benefit. This time,...

No Breaks, Less Sugar, and More Refunds

June 22, 2015 –
Texas Governor Greg Abbott says “no” to a tax break for big corporations. The Republican just vetoed a bill aimed at expanding a tax incentive for...

When does “repeal” mean “reform?”

June 19, 2015 –
Another presidential candidate floats a flat tax, but would it sink under its own weight? This time it’s GOP contender Rand Paul. He’d replace the...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why the Highway Trust Fund is in trouble

June 18, 2015 –
Despite calls for more infrastructure spending from both Congress and the Obama administration, the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), the primary source of...
Individual Taxes

Rand Paul’s Tax Cut Isn't Quite What It Seems

June 17, 2015 –
Unlike those GOP presidential hopefuls who say their tax reforms would raise the same amount of money as the current tax code, even when their actual...
State and Local Issues

The House GOP’s Internal Battle Over Online Sales Taxes

June 15, 2015 –
Yesterday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced the Remote Transactions Parity Act , which would clarify how states can require out-of-state...
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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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