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The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

Individual Taxes

How Capital Gains Affected Average Income Tax Rates From 2001-2014

March 15, 2017 –
This post is part of the Tax Policy Center’s series, Tax Line , which digs into the data behind the day’s most pressing tax policy...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Would Bill Gates’s proposed robot tax help workers?

March 14, 2017 –
Automation may soon affect even industries and jobs we thought were immune, so what should countries do to prepare for those left jobless and behind?...
Individual Taxes

House GOP Health Plan Would Finance Tax Cuts by Reducing Medicaid and Insurance Subsidies

March 14, 2017 –
Here is one way to think about the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation score of the House Republican health bill : By...
Individual Taxes

ACA and the perils of reconciliation

March 13, 2017 –
I intended to write a completely different post about how repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would undermine Medicare’s finances. My story was half right:...
Individual Taxes

The House GOP’s Proposals To Repeal ACA Taxes Would Largely Benefit High-Income Households

March 10, 2017 –
The House Republican proposal to repeal or delay the tax increases in the Affordable Care Act, including the revenue-raisers and the individual and employer mandate...
Individual Taxes

Coverage vs. Cost in CBO’s Score of the House GOP health plan

March 10, 2017 –
House Republicans are pushing for quick passage of The American Health Care Act (AHCA), which would modify or repeal many aspects of the Affordable Care...
Individual Taxes

Do The Tax Provisions of the House GOP Health Bill Pass Its Own Tax Reform Test?

March 9, 2017 –
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) began this year with two ambitious goals—rewriting the tax code and fundamentally remaking the nation’s system of health care financing...
Individual Taxes

The big tax changes in the House GOP health plan

March 8, 2017 –
On Monday, House Republicans introduced legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In addition to major revisions to Medicaid and other parts...
Individual Taxes

How Russia and the Affordable Care Act Are Killing Tax Reform

March 6, 2017 –
Tax reform was always going to be a tough sell in 2017. But now, thanks to the seemingly bottomless controversy over the Trump campaign’s Russia...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

A quick guide to the ‘border adjustments’ tax

March 3, 2017 –
The House Republican tax plan proposes to transform the corporate income tax into a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT), which would include border adjustments that...