TaxVox

The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

State and Local Issues

Confronting the Effects of the TCJA on the States

January 26, 2018 –
On Wednesday morning, a panel of experts gathered at the Tax Policy Center to discuss what the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) means for...

How Taxpayers in DC and its Suburbs Would Fare Under the New Tax Law

January 22, 2018 –
As Tax Policy Center analyses have shown , the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) treats people of similar incomes in very different ways, depending...
Individual Taxes

The Downmarketing Of Tax Shelters

January 18, 2018 –
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has turned us into a nation of tax shelter hunters.
Business Taxes

The TCJA’s Significant Tax Benefits for Employees Who Become Contract Workers

January 17, 2018 –
Jessica Sayles, a certified public accountant, works in her office in Las Vegas.
Individual Taxes

The IRS Private Debt Collection Program Once Again Looks Like A Failure

January 12, 2018 –
The IRS’s Private Debt Collection Program Once Again Looks Like A Failure What’s the old line about “fool me once?” When it comes to privatizing...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

21 Million Taxpayers Will Stop Taking the Charitable Deduction Under The TCJA

January 8, 2018 –
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will shrink the number of households claiming an itemized deduction for their gifts to non-profits from about 37...

The TCJA Will Create More Complexity For Taxpayers Than It Claims

January 5, 2018 –
Among the most complex provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is its special tax deduction for income earned by pass-through businesses. In...
Individual Taxes

Tax Cuts in 2018: Will We Feel Them? Will It Matter?

January 3, 2018 –
With great fanfare Congress just passed a bill to cut taxes by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, and by nearly $220 billion in fiscal 2019 alone. But will regular taxpayers notice?

Who Will Pay for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?

January 2, 2018 –
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will cut taxes by almost $1.5 trillion over the next decade, largely benefiting corporations, pass-through businesses such as...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Evolved

December 28, 2017 –
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Congress passed on Dec. 22 was quite different from the tax cuts proposed by the Trump Administration last...