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Federal Budget and Economy

Six Think Tanks Tackle the Budget Deficit

May 25, 2011 –
Today, at the request of the Peterson Foundation, an ideologically diverse group of six think tanks proposed their long-term solutions to the federal deficit problem...
Individual Taxes

Sunny days ahead? Or is this just the silver lining to federal tax system clouds?

May 24, 2011 –
As I noted a couple of weeks ago , California’s April income tax revenues were well above forecast levels. Many other states, especially those reliant...
Individual Taxes

Small Business and Taxes

May 22, 2011 –
We’ve all heard the allegation: President Obama wants to raise taxes on “small business.” But buried in that claim is a massive amount of confusion...
Individual Taxes

Is Corporate Tax Reform Realistic?

May 19, 2011 –
This morning, a panel of veteran international tax experts tried to put the U.S. struggle to fix its corporate tax system in broader perspective. Unfortunately,...
Federal Budget and Economy

Do We Need an Election to Fix the Deficit?

May 17, 2011 –
I spent this morning at one of those Washington institutions: the budget roundtable. Today’s (at the Aspen Institute) gave me a chance to pose a...
Individual Taxes

Too Many Cooks on Tax Policy?

May 16, 2011 –
I’m preparing a presentation on our tax system for a group of visiting foreign tax officials and they wanted to know how responsibilities are divided...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Not to Fix the Housing Market

May 16, 2011 –
The American housing market is in trouble. Prices continue to fall, many would-be buyers can’t qualify for mortgages, sales remain sluggish, and the backlog of...
Individual Taxes

The Very Rich Really Are Different

May 12, 2011 –
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. He wasn’t talking about taxes (the...
State and Local Issues

California’s Revenue Roller Coaster

May 11, 2011 –
Last week, while admiring the seals frolicking on a San Diego beach, I read some good news about California’s tax collections. State officials had just...
Federal Budget and Economy

Jon Stewart's Fake News on Tax Expenditures

May 11, 2011 –
Dear Jon, The Daily Show is my favorite TV show. I think you’re the smartest policy analyst on television. (Okay, as you prove time after...
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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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