Welcome to TaxVox

Welcome to TaxVox, the Tax Policy Center’s new tax and budget policy blog. 

We started TaxVox to communicate directly and quickly with an online community interested in fiscal policy issues.  We’ll be commenting on federal, state, and local legislation; tax administration; and new research on individual and business taxation. We’ll also have lots to say about the Presidential candidates’ tax agendas.

Our chief blogger is Howard Gleckman, former senior correspondent in the Washington bureau of Business Week, who covered tax and budget issues for nearly 30 years.   He plans to post items every few days. Other TPC policy experts will join the fray as well.

We want your comments too. We don’t want TaxVox to be only the voice of the Tax Policy Center. So please help us make it a forum for the entire tax and budget policy community.

Please read the ground rules for the blog.  Here’s my capsule summary along with a couple of additional preferences.  First, the Tax Policy Center is nonpartisan and has no institutional positions on any policies or legislation.  Don’t interpret anything on the blog as TPC’s endorsement of a party, candidate, or legislative position.  Feel free to cite our blog postings, but attribute them to the author and not the TPC.  Second, no name-calling,  use of copyrighted material without permission, or obscenity. We’ll be monitoring comments, but sincerely hope that intervention will not be necessary.  Third, though it’s not a rule, we’d prefer that you not use this site to air campaign rhetoric.  It’s fine to talk about campaign positions (even if you work for one of the campaigns), but avoid paeans to particular candidates or parties.  Fourth, please identify yourself on your postings so people will know where you are coming from. Certainly, anybody associated with TPC will use his or her own real name.

Finally, I’d like to thank Amy Gill, Dana Campbell, and Doug Murray for exceptional work in setting up the blog and to acknowledge the generous support of TPC’s funders for making it possible. 

Again, welcome.  Let the dialog begin!

Len Burman

Director, Tax Policy Center