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Individual Taxes

TPC’s New Tax Calculator Examines Fiscal Cliff Options

November 28, 2012 –
As a lame-duck Congress once again faces an impending deadline for dealing with expiring tax cuts, TPC has released a new Tax Calculator to compare...
Individual Taxes

How Can 98 Percent of Us be Middle-Class?

November 26, 2012 –
Congress and President Obama can't agree on much, but they agree on this: Congress must preserve what they persist in calling middle-class tax cuts. As...
Individual Taxes

What Happens if Congress Extends Tax Cuts for Those Making $500,000?

November 20, 2012 –
What would happen if Congress extends the 2001-2010 tax cuts for couples making $500,000 or $1 million-a-year instead of $250,000 or less, as President Obama...
Individual Taxes

The Simpsons for Tax Wonks: The NTA Honors Joel Slemrod

November 20, 2012 –
Congratulations to University of Michigan tax economist Joel Slemrod for winning the National Tax Association’s Daniel M. Holland Medal for outstanding contributions to the study...
Federal Budget and Economy

Understanding President Obama’s Revenue Targets

November 16, 2012 –
President Obama and administration officials have offered two different revenue targets for the fiscal cliff debate: $1 trillion and $1.6 trillion (sometimes reported as $1.5...
Individual Taxes

Will States Tumble Over the Fiscal Cliff Too?

November 16, 2012 –
As Congress and President Obama continue to spar over how to avoid the looming fiscal cliff, most public attention has been focused on what tumbling...
Federal Budget and Economy

Can Congress Raise Taxes on the Rich without Raising Their Rates? Maybe

November 15, 2012 –
At his press conference yesterday , President Obama said it is nearly impossible to raise taxes on the wealthy (a key piece of his fiscal...
Federal Budget and Economy

Congress Can’t Avoid Tax Rate Hikes By Closing “Loopholes”

November 13, 2012 –
You can tell when Congress and the President have tough choices to make. That’s when they trot out the euphemisms—all aimed at making what they...
Individual Taxes

Washington Starts To Dance Away from the Fiscal Cliff

November 9, 2012 –
So the dance begins. President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), and various other lawmakers are starting to lay down their markers as they look...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Five Challenges for Obama’s Tough Second-Term

November 7, 2012 –
Barack Obama has pulled off the easy part. He got re-elected. Now, he faces a second term full of painful choices. You could see it...
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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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