TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Dividends, Bills, Assets and Software

February 12, 2015 –
Bank of America may have helped clients avoid taxes. Since at least 2011, it had been using its US unit’s funds to finance transactions by its...

Corporate Tax Reform: Not All About the Rates

February 10, 2015 –
About last year’s inversion rush… The US corporate tax rate, highest among industrialized nations at 35 percent, was driving companies to switch...
Business Taxes

Tax Subsidies May Not Help Start-Ups as Much as Lawmakers Think

February 9, 2015 –
Many tax subsidies help new businesses, especially those financed with borrowed money and organized to avoid the corporate income tax . However,...
Individual Taxes

Go Team: Score 1 for Obama on Ending Tax Subsidies for College Sports

February 6, 2015 –
I love college sports. I really do – especially basketball. (Go Wildcats!) But I also love President Obama’s FY16 budget proposal to cut federal...
Federal Budget and Economy

The President’s Capital Gains Proposals: An Opening for Business Tax Reform?

February 6, 2015 –
In his budget proposal, President Obama would raise capital gains taxes as a way to finance middle class tax relief. Along with many Republicans, he...

A Replacement, A Vision, and Promises

February 6, 2015 –
An Obamacare replacement? Senate Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch, House Energy and Commerce chair Fred Upton, and GOP Senator Richard Burr have...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Will Jeb Bush Turn His Vision of Government into Tax Policy?

February 5, 2015 –
Jeb Bush gave a fascinating and important speech yesterday to the Detroit Economic Club, a traditional venue for presidential candidates. In it, he...

Corporate Tax Reform: Some Agreement, But Is Agreement Enough?

February 5, 2015 –
The President’s plan for corporate tax reform: Incomplete. TPC’s Howard Gleckman explains that while Obama’s budget renewed his call for cutting...
Individual Taxes

A Fuller Accounting of How State and Local Governments Fared in the Great Recession

February 4, 2015 –
For state and local finance geeks, nothing is more fun than poring over the Census Bureau’s Census of Governments. The agency only updates the data...
Business Taxes

Do Obama’s Corporate Tax Proposals Add Up?

February 4, 2015 –
The tax proposals in President Obama’s 2016 budget combine two interesting ideas for international reform with his often-stated--but still vague--...