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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Rubio-Lee Hints at Tax Reform's Troubling Direction

March 11, 2015 –
Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Mike Lee have introduced what should probably be thought of as the first major set of tax proposals in the 2016...

Credits, Collections and Refunds

March 11, 2015 –
The Department of Homeland Security didn’t shut down, but… fallout remains over the President Obama’s executive orders on immigration and their...
Federal Budget and Economy

Watch What You Wish For: Dynamic Scoring Creates More Issues for the GOP

March 10, 2015 –
As TaxVox readers know by now , House Republicans now require the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office to include...

Simplification, Shortfalls and Shifted Assets

March 10, 2015 –
Today on the Hill. The Senate Finance Committee examines tax complexity , compliance, and administration with an eye toward simplification in tax...

If Wishes Were Taxes, Reformers Would Smile

March 9, 2015 –
Everything could come up roses for Rubio and Lee. At least one version of dynamic scoring—accounting for macroeconomic effects of a proposal—has...
Federal Budget and Economy

Dynamic Scoring Forum: The Dangers of Dynamic Scoring

March 6, 2015 –
This is one of a series of TaxVox guest blogs discussing dynamic scoring . One of the strengths of the US budgeting system is that proposals are held...

Expensive Plans, ACA Developments, and Exercises in Futility

March 5, 2015 –
The Rubio-Lee tax reform plan: Interesting, very expensive, and DOA. The GOP senators offer a framework for a huge tax cut that would add trillions...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Rubio-Lee Tax Reform Plan Raises Important Issues But Would Add Trillions to the Debt

March 4, 2015 –
The newest entrants in the tax reform sweepstakes are senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mike Lee (R-UT). Their plan is filled with a number of...
Individual Taxes

What We Hear When We Talk About Taxes... Musings of a Tax Hound

March 4, 2015 –
It’s been just over a year since I started posting TPC’s Daily Deduction. It’s high time I let you in on a little secret: Whenever...
State and Local Issues

States Want To Cut Taxes Even More on Pensions. Bad Ideas Never Die.

March 4, 2015 –
The siren song of retirement income free of state taxes continues to seduce politicians. No matter that there is little evidence that high taxes on...
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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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