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The voices of Tax Policy Center's researchers and staff

State and Local Issues

State revenue outlook has few bright spots

December 22, 2016 –
As states prepare to debate their fiscal year 2018 budgets, many continue to face tough fiscal outlooks. About half failed to meet revenue targets last...
Individual Taxes

Cash-Constrained Families Will Have To Wait For EITC and Child Credit Refunds

December 21, 2016 –
Americans have grown accustomed to getting substantial tax refunds soon after they file their returns, especially if they turn in their paperwork early. But starting...
Federal Budget and Economy

The 2016 Tax Vox Lump of Coal Award for the Year's Worst Tax Ideas

December 20, 2016 –
Donald Trump is not only President-elect, but he is also the hands-down winner of Tax Vox’s Lump of Coal Award for the worst tax policy...
Federal Budget and Economy

Rubio's Proposed Wage Subsidies: Helping Puerto Rican Workers and Employers

December 16, 2016 –
Last week, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the Economic Mobility for Productive Livelihoods and Expanding Opportunity (EMPLEO) Act aimed at raising after-tax pay for low-wage...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Repealing the Affordable Care Act Would Cut Taxes For High Income Households, Raise Taxes For Many Others

December 15, 2016 –
Repealing the Affordable Care Act would cut taxes significantly for the highest income one percent of US households, according to a new Tax Policy Center...
Business Taxes

Navigating the confusing language of international tax reform

December 14, 2016 –
There has been considerable confusion about how to describe the treatment of international taxation in corporate tax reform plans. The House GOP blueprint , for...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Mark Mazur to take over as TPC Director

December 13, 2016 –
I am delighted to announce that Mark Mazur will replace me as the Robert C. Pozen Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, beginning on...
Individual Taxes

Building a better soda tax

December 12, 2016 –
Soda taxes won big at the ballot box in November. Voters in Boulder, Colorado, and three California cities (Albany, Oakland, and San Francisco) approved new...
Business Taxes

Border Adjustability Is Already Fueling Tax Reform Controversy

December 8, 2016 –
Notwithstanding all the happy talk about Congress passing a tax reform bill in 100 days next year, any effort to rework the revenue code will...
Individual Taxes

A tax cut in exchange for more federal debt? Some taxpayers consider the tradeoff

December 7, 2016 –
Without offsetting spending cuts that President-elect Trump has yet to describe, his plan offers a giant tax cut that the US can’t readily afford. Would it be worth 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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