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Federal Budget and Economy

Congress’s Medicare Financing Mess is Bigger Than You Think

February 6, 2023 –
While Congress talks about the federal debt, it’s still hesitating to deal with one major source of rising deficits—Medicare—that it can’t avoid much longer. Medicare’s...
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves gives his State of the State address
State and Local Issues

Three State Tax Cut Lessons for 2023

February 2, 2023 –
The past two years were a great time to make state tax policy. Booming revenue collections combined with hundreds of billions of dollars from Congress...
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Federal Budget and Economy

The Effects Of Using New Tax Revenue To Shore Up Medicare’s Finances

February 1, 2023 –
How could new tax revenues ease Medicare’s substantial financial pressures? And how would those tax hikes affect federal revenues and the distribution of tax burdens...

Extra! Extra! Should Local News Organizations Get Tax Breaks?

February 1, 2023 –
Tax breaks for struggling local newspapers might sound reasonable, even righteous. But legislative efforts nationally and at the state level have yet to succeed. Why?
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Individual Taxes

Creative New Ways To Help Low-Income Families File Their Taxes

January 30, 2023 –
New mothers , families with low incomes , and immigrant parents often miss out on tax benefits by failing to file returns. But with tax...
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Individual Taxes

Tax Cheats, Dodgers, Avoiders, And Evaders

January 27, 2023 –
The news is filled with stories about conflicts between taxpayers and tax collectors. Just a few weeks ago a New York jury convicted the Trump...
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Individual Taxes

Lower 1099-K Threshold Would Put Gig Workers on More-Equal Footing

January 20, 2023 –
As of 2021, about 16 percent of Americans had earned money through an online gig work platform . While contract labor is not new, the...
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Understanding Revenue Implications For State Pass-Through-Entity Taxes

January 19, 2023 –
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction managed to survive attempts to reform or scrap...
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Federal Budget and Economy

Balancing The Federal Budget In 10 Years Without Raising Taxes Is….Impossible

January 17, 2023 –
House Republicans say they want to balance the federal budget in 10 years by cutting spending only, and seem to have received a promise from...
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Federal Budget and Economy

Here Comes The FairTax … Again

January 12, 2023 –
The idea of replacing all major federal taxes with a national sales tax – and using the opportunity to “abolish” the IRS – has been...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

  • Tax Professor Daniel Hemel
Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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