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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

About the 47 Percent Who Don’t Pay Federal Income Tax: Mitt, Meet Andrea

September 19, 2012 –
About that 47 percent: Let me introduce you to Andrea. When I met her a couple of years ago, she was a home health aide...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Why Do People Pay No Federal Income Tax?

September 18, 2012 –
The percentage of Americans who don’t pay income tax is making headlines again. However, the story hasn’t changed since I blogged about it last year...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

What Mitt Romney Didn’t Learn from Ronald Reagan

September 14, 2012 –
If only Mitt Romney had paid attention to Ronald Reagan. There are so many things the former Massachusetts governor could learn from the former California...
Individual Taxes

Who Pays the Corporate Income Tax?

September 13, 2012 –
Who pays the corporate income tax? It is one of the most vexing questions tax experts face. Now, to keep pace with the latest research,...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

What Was Missing from Obama’s Convention

September 7, 2012 –
We now know more about Joe and Jill Biden’s dating history than we do about what Biden and Barack Obama would do in a second...
Individual Taxes

Can Filing Taxes Connect Low-Income Families to Bank Services and Save the Government Money?

September 6, 2012 –
Is there a way for low- and moderate-income households who do not have bank accounts to receive tax refunds electronically? A new Urban Institute study...
Individual Taxes

Do Mandates or Tax Subsidies Do a Better Job of Boosting Savings?

September 4, 2012 –
Most policymakers and economists agree that Americans don’t save enough. But which government policy does a better job encouraging saving and investment: tax subsidies such...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Happened to Tax Reform at Mitt Romney’s Convention?

August 31, 2012 –
Yes, political conventions are costly anachronisms. But, with patience and time, one can learn quite a lot about a political party by watching, or reading,...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Feldstein's Analysis Doesn't Refute TPC Findings, It Confirms Them

August 30, 2012 –
In a recent paper , we showed that any revenue-neutral tax reform that included Governor Romney’s specific tax cuts and that met his stated goal...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Should Congress Curb Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds?

August 28, 2012 –
As politicians and their allies look for ways to finance tax rate cuts, a surprising option is getting a great deal of attention among conservatives:...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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