TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Individual Taxes

Will Consumers Come To Love Longevity Annuities?

November 4, 2014 –
Economists love longevity annuities. But what will it take to get real people to buy them? That’s one of the questions that two panels of retirement...

Mid-Term Monday: The Calm Before The Storm?

November 3, 2014 –
Congress returns next week. We’ll resume our regular schedule on Wednesday, November 5, after tomorrow's elections. State ballot initiatives offer...
State and Local Issues

What Will Next Week’s State Ballot Measures Tell Us About Taxes?

October 31, 2014 –
While most national attention is focused on which party will control the Senate and who will win the 36 gubernatorial races, many states also have...
Business Taxes

Is There Any Chance Congress Will Pass Business Tax Reform Next Year?

October 28, 2014 –
In the run-up to next week’s congressional elections, Republicans are saying that if they win control of the Senate, they will try to pass business...

Reporting, Responding, and Partnerships

October 27, 2014 –
Congress is in recess through the mid-term elections. The Daily Deduction will post each Monday until then. Stranger than fiction: The IRS, “...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why Tax Lawyers and Tax Economists Can’t Communicate

October 23, 2014 –
Any close observer of the making of tax policy can see it: Lawyers and economists looking at the same issue through entirely different prisms. I’ve...
State and Local Issues

Bertha and the French Professor: Lessons for Public Private Partnerships

October 21, 2014 –
Jean Tirole is an influential , respected, and by all accounts gracious man who won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. Bertha is a 7,000-ton...
Federal Budget and Economy

A "Normal" Budget Isn't Really Normal

October 20, 2014 –
Treasury closed the financial books on fiscal 2014 last week. As my colleague Howard Gleckman noted , the top line figures all came in close to their...

On Residence, Retirement, and Economic Records

October 20, 2014 –
Congress is in recess through the mid-term elections. The Daily Deduction will post each Monday until then. What’s a multinational to do? Where is it...
State and Local Issues

Ahead of the Midterms, State Economic Trends Present Mixed Signals

October 17, 2014 –
Voters say the economy is the most important issue in the upcoming election. But as the most recent State Economic Monitor reports, the economy looks...