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TPC Answers Two Questions About Its Analysis of the House Ways & Means Committee’s Tax Bill

September 29, 2021 –
After the Tax Policy Center published its new analysis of the House Ways & Means Committee’s budget reconciliation tax plan , commentators asked two questions:...
Individual Taxes

Whose Child Is It Anyway? The Ways & Means Definition Makes It Harder for The IRS To Know

September 27, 2021 –
To paraphrase Tolstoy , all simple families are alike; each complicated family is complicated in its own way. So when the tax code aims to...
Individual Taxes

Could Collective Defined Contribution Plans Reduce the Risks Associated with Retirement Plans for Both Employers and Their Workers?

September 21, 2021 –
Saving for retirement is a risky endeavor. A key factor driving the shift over the past four decades from defined benefit (DB) pension plans to...
Individual Taxes

How To Fix the Problem of Small Retirement Accounts

September 21, 2021 –
Not only do many American fail to save enough for retirement, but many workers are plagued by a different, but related problem: They have collected...
Individual Taxes

Effective Income Tax Rates Have Fallen for The Top One Percent Since World War II

September 15, 2021 –
While average effective tax rates barely changed in the US from 1945 to 2015, the average tax rates of high-income households fell sharply—from about 50...
Individual Taxes

Families Planned to Use Child Tax Credit to Pay Bills but Some Were Confused About Eligibility

September 15, 2021 –
Starting in July, many parents began receiving monthly payments of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). A new IPSOS survey as well as Urban Institute interviews...
Individual Taxes

Was The Senate’s Heated Crypto Tax Reporting Debate Much Ado About Nothing?

September 10, 2021 –
When Congress debates major legislation, the public often focuses on a single narrow issue—one frequently irrelevant to the main point of the bill. It happened...
Individual Taxes

An Expanded Child Tax Credit Would Reduce Child Poverty to Below 10 Percent in Nearly All States

September 8, 2021 –
The American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) would reduce child poverty in a typical year below 10 percent in 47 states –...

What’s Easier: Killing Aliens, Or Levying A Vehicle-Mileage Tax?

September 1, 2021 –
if we want more of a good thing, don’t tax it. So how should we think about the vehicle-mileage tax (VMT) that raises the costs of driving planet-friendly hybrid or electric vehicles?
Individual Taxes

Would Extending More Generous Tax Credits Increase The Number Of Non-Income Tax Payers?

August 25, 2021 –
Would Extending More Generous Tax Credits Increase The Number Of Non-Income Tax Payers? We know the pandemic and the policy response to it dramatically increased...
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State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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