TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Individual Taxes

Can Obama slow corporate inversions? Yes he can.

August 15, 2014 –
Politicians can debate whether corporate tax inversions are “unpatriotic” or simply a legitimate technique to reduce taxes--and commentators can...

August Avoidance: Corporate Taxes and Budget Realities

August 11, 2014 –
Congress is in recess. The Daily Deduction will return to its regular schedule on Monday, September 8. Until then: We’ll see you every Monday morning...
Federal Budget and Economy

Does Congress Really Care About the Deficit? Not When It Comes to Vets and Highways.

August 7, 2014 –
Next time a lawmaker starts to pontificate about the desperate need to reduce the budget deficit, remind him (or her) about what Congress did just...
Individual Taxes

How Political Gridlock Encourages Tax Avoidance

August 5, 2014 –
In July, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew asked Congress to stop the current wave of corporate expatriations. The legislation is going nowhere, and...

Online Taxes: Searches, Storage, and Sales

August 4, 2014 –
Congress is in recess. The Daily Deduction will return to its regular schedule on Monday, September 8. Until then: We’ll see you every Monday morning...
Individual Taxes

A New Way to Invest for Old Age, But How Many Will Buy?

August 1, 2014 –
A few weeks ago, with absolutely no fanfare, the Treasury Department announced what could be a major change in the way we save for retirement. It...

“You Got to Know When to Fold ‘Em”

August 1, 2014 –
Gambling with the Highway Trust Fund: The House always wins? As expected , the House rejected the Senate’s four-and-a-half month $8 billion highway...
Individual Taxes

How REIT Spinoffs Will Further Erode the Corporate Tax Base

July 31, 2014 –
While Congress has been obsessing about tax inversions, it turns out another—potentially more important--tax avoidance technique is getting increased...

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Not Much, in Congress

July 31, 2014 –
The Senate won’t “Bring Home Jobs…” at least not through the bill that would have denied tax deductions for costs of moving corporations out of the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

What Ronald Reagan Didn’t Say About the EITC

July 30, 2014 –
I like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). It encourages work and allows millions of low-wage workers and their kids to escape a life of poverty ...