TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Individual Taxes

Get the Fiscal House in Order

November 20, 2014 –
The Cato Institute has organized an online forum to debate pro-growth economic policy reforms. Tax Policy Center scholars Bill Gale, Donald Marron,...

New Chairs, New Resistance, and Maybe, New Taxes

November 20, 2014 –
As expected: Paul Ryan will succeed Dave Camp as House Ways & Means Chair. Representative Kevin Brady removed himself from consideration earlier...

“Dead Reform Walking:” On Fairness, Immigration, and Spending

November 19, 2014 –
A Senator says “ no way ” to a bill that won ’ t see December ’ s light of day. As far as the lame-duck Congress is concerned, the Marketplace...
Federal Budget and Economy

Jim Poterba Wins Holland Award

November 18, 2014 –
The National Tax Association gave this year’s Dan Holland Medal for outstanding contributions to the study and practice of public finance to MIT...
Business Taxes

Will Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration Kill Tax Reform? Hint: You Can’t Kill Something That’s Already Dead

November 18, 2014 –
The latest narrative making the rounds in Washington is that President Obama will kill prospects for tax reform in 2015 if he grants legal status to...

In Search Of… Tax Savings, Near or Far

November 18, 2014 –
Inversion is the gift that keeps on giving for Actavis. Last year the pharmaceutical company reincorporated from its Parsipanny, New Jersey, home to...
Federal Budget and Economy

Spin Alert: DOE Loans Are Losing Money, Not Making Profits

November 17, 2014 –
The Department of Energy snookered the media last week with a report that seems to show that its clean energy lending programs are profitable. “...

A Billionaire Saves, Two Words Disappear, and Three Provisions Protect

November 14, 2014 –
There’s more than one way to skin a cat (and reduce taxes). Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has made a swap for Procter & Gamble’...
Business Taxes

How Did Medical Device Makers Become Poster Children for Obamacare Critics

November 13, 2014 –
The push to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s tax on medical devices has somehow become a touchstone for GOP efforts to chip away at President Obama’s...

Liability, Math, and Budget Crunches

November 13, 2014 –
Can a state tax all of the income of its residents, wherever it is earned? The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Comptroller v...