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Individual Taxes

Anybody Can Itemize Their Deductions. But Most Don’t Want To

September 5, 2019 –
It is sometimes said that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) ended the ability of millions of taxpayers to claim itemized deductions, and...
Individual Taxes

Opportunity Zones May Someday Help Poor Communities. They Already Are A Tax Shelter For High-Income Investors

September 5, 2019 –
New York Times reporters Jesse Drucker and Eric Lipton wrote a well-reported piece the other day on that Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s Opportunity Zone...

There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Or Sales Tax Holiday.

September 4, 2019 –
The idea of a sales tax exemption makes sense if a state is trying to encourage first-time purchases of pricey goods like an energy efficient refrigerator. But for products that most residents will buy anyway—like school supplies—it doesn’t.
Federal Budget and Economy

Forms and Follies: IRS Midcourse Corrections of Tax Forms

September 3, 2019 –
The great architect Louis Sullivan once wrote , “form follows function.” I can’t help but wonder if, in the less stable world of tax, new...
Federal Budget and Economy

Multi-Trillion Dollar Fiscal and Monetary Gambles

August 29, 2019 –
Under pressure from President Trump and worried about a worldwide economic slowdown, the Federal Reserve recently cut short-term interest rates. By continuing to push rates...
State and Local Issues

Minnesota’s Struggles To Conform to the TCJA Made Its CPAs Happy. Taxpayers, Not So Much.

August 26, 2019 –
It’s an unusually glamorous time to be an accountant in Minnesota. Over the past year, certified public accountants (CPAs) and other professional tax preparers have...
Federal Budget and Economy

No, The US Is Not Overtaxed

August 20, 2019 –
No, The US Is Not Overtaxed. Despite what you may have heard, Americans are taxed less than residents of almost any other major developed country...

States Must Be Aware Of How Big Changes In Federal Law Affect Their Revenue Codes

August 19, 2019 –
All states with an income tax link to the federal tax system to some degree. This system of federal-state conformity helps taxpayers by standardizing the...

Taxpaying Workers Will Be Punished by Trump’s New Curbs on Immigrants Receiving Public Benefits

August 16, 2019 –
In his defense this week of the Trump Administration’s “public charge rule” that aims to limit immigration for people perceived likely to need public benefits,...
Business Taxes

Why Carbon Taxes Are So Hard To Pass

August 15, 2019 –
Why Carbon Taxes Are So Hard To Pass Economists love carbon taxes . According to polls, so do roughly two-thirds of Americans. Yet voters in...
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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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