TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Federal Budget and Economy

Tax Cuts for Low- and Moderate Income Households May Be Much More Powerful Than Cuts for the Rich

April 21, 2015 –
It turns out that tax cuts for the job creators...don’t create very many jobs. By contrast, tax cuts for low- and moderate-income households can...
Business Taxes

Corporate Tax Reform and Small Business

April 17, 2015 –
While there is no chance that Congress will agree to broad-based tax reform before the next president takes office in 2017, lawmakers are making one...

Bipartisan or Partisan: Tax Efforts Abound

April 17, 2015 –
There’s a bipartisan House effort to double the federal gas tax. It would raise the 18.4 cents-per-gallon tax to about 30 cents, would be inflation...
Federal Budget and Economy

Rubio Tries to Triangulate Tax Policy

April 16, 2015 –
Newly declared GOP presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio is trying something truly (Bill) Clintonesque—navigating between the demands of his party...

Death and Taxes: Certainty and Conflict

April 16, 2015 –
The House plans a vote to repeal the estate tax today. Repealing the levy would cut taxes by $270 billion over 10 years for 0.2 percent of the nation...
Individual Taxes

Why The Top 2 Percent Pay Lots of Tax: Evidence from President Obama’s 1040

April 15, 2015 –
The White House released Barack Obama’s 2014 tax return last week. It showed that the President and First Lady paid $93,362 in federal taxes on a...

Happy Tax Day! Who Will Pay?

April 15, 2015 –
No Virginia. The One Percent don’t dodge federal taxes . In 2013, they paid 35.7 percent of their income in federal taxes. Low-income households don’...
Individual Taxes

Busting Myths for Tax Day

April 14, 2015 –
Since Tax Day is tomorrow, it seems like a good time to bust a few myths about taxes. Here are five of the biggest misperceptions about the federal...

Tax Ideas, A “Fix,” Limits and Honors

April 14, 2015 –
Paul Ryan and Orrin Hatch want businesses to share ideas on tax treatment of “pass-throughs.” As owners of pass-through businesses such as...
Individual Taxes

Why Stop At Food Stamps? Let’s Limit Use Of All Federal Benefits

April 13, 2015 –
Missouri State Representative Rick Brattin (R-55) has proposed a bill that would prohibit Missourians who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition...