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The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Federal Budget and Economy

What the Fiscal Cliff Deal Really Means for Taxes and Spending

January 3, 2013 –
Everyone trying to sort out the fiscal cliff deal is getting hopelessly tangled in budget baselines. Are taxes going up? Or are they going down?...
Federal Budget and Economy

Congress Kicks the Fiscal Can off the Front Stoop

January 1, 2013 –
In the end, it looks like Congress isn’t even going to kick the fiscal can down the road. Assuming the House passes the deal agreed...
Individual Taxes

New Ways to Think About a Tax on Public Companies

December 29, 2012 –
Suppose someone proposed a special tax on businesses that make their ownership shares publicly available in affordable, easy-to-sell units. Such an idea would probably generate...
Federal Budget and Economy

2013 May Be the Year of Perpetual Fiscal Crisis

December 27, 2012 –
If 2012 was the year of modest economic recovery and surprising Democratic election success, 2013 may be the year of perpetual fiscal policy crisis. After...
Individual Taxes

TaxVox’s 2012 Lump of Coal Awards

December 24, 2012 –
TaxVox proudly presents its 2012 Lump of Coal awards, Thelma and Louise edition, for the worst fiscal policy ideas of the year. The winners are:...
Federal Budget and Economy

Should Working Class Families Pay Higher Tax so High Income People Can Pay Less?

December 20, 2012 –
Somehow, the fiscal cliff tax debate has taken a truly weird turn. No, not the politics, which long ago became a parody of Washington deal-making...
Individual Taxes

Toppling Over the Fiscal Cliff Could Cost Low-Income Families $1,000 in Reduced Tax Credits

December 19, 2012 –
The 2001-10 tax cuts placed substantial emphasis on “pro-family” tax reform. The more prominent features favoring families with children included a doubling of the Child...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Adjusting the Price Index Would Mean for Taxpayers

December 18, 2012 –
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner may be close to agreeing on a plan that, among other things, would revise the way government programs...
Federal Budget and Economy

How to Control Entitlements: A Challenge Ike Did Not Face

December 18, 2012 –
Yesterday, I described President Eisenhower’s remarkable success in turning a large deficit in fiscal 1959 into a balanced budget in 1960. It was one of...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Eisenhower and Congressional Democrats Balanced a Budget

December 17, 2012 –
The election results did not change the political status quo, and the status quo has not been conducive to solving the nation’s festering fiscal problems...
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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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