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Individual Taxes

Who’s Afraid of Income Taxes? New Interactive TPC Tools To Help You Understand the 1040

March 18, 2015 –
Need help understanding the 1040 as we enter the homestretch of this year’s tax filing season? The Tax Policy Center has created a new interactive...

Spending Cuts, Surpluses and Sales Opportunities

March 18, 2015 –
The House GOP Budget: No tax reform details. The House Budget Committee unveiled a budget with $5.5 trillion in spending cuts that promises balance...
Federal Budget and Economy

The House GOP Budget As Can Opener: An Impossible Task and A New Lesson in Dynamic Budget Scoring

March 17, 2015 –
Two takeaways from the House Budget Committee’s 2016 fiscal plan : A) It is impossible and B) It is the latest example of the challenges of trying to...
Individual Taxes

Dynamic Scoring Forum: Inside the Black Box

March 17, 2015 –
This is one of a series of TaxVox guest blogs discussing dynamic scoring . Whether dynamic scoring for official revenue estimates is a good or bad...

On Budgeting, Patience, and Rube Goldberg

March 17, 2015 –
Out today: A first look at GOP budgets. The US hit its debt limit yesterday (at least technically), and the budget battles have begun. The Senate GOP...
Individual Taxes

Can Rube Goldberg Save the Highway Trust Fund?

March 16, 2015 –
In principle, the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is simple. Drivers pay a federal gas tax when they purchase fuel, the revenue goes to the HTF, and the...

Local Tax Threats, Hikes, and Indignities

March 16, 2015 –
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Without school pension money from the state, property taxes will jump. Facing a tough runoff in his race for reelection,...

Raising Taxes to Fuel, Fly, and… Drink?

March 13, 2015 –
Have taxes, will travel. The American Road & Transportation Builders Association wants Congress to raise the federal gas tax by 15 cents a gallon...

Charting a Course for Tax Reform: Might Feel Familiar, Won’t Be Easy

March 12, 2015 –
On the Hill: Taxpayer protection sought, tax reform input needed. The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing today on protecting taxpayers from...
Federal Budget and Economy

Dynamic Scoring Forum: Overblown Concerns?

March 11, 2015 –
This is one of a series of TaxVox guest blogs discussing dynamic scoring. Macroeconomic scoring, aka dynamic scoring, has been debated for years. For...