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Individual Taxes

Should IRS or Social Security Administer A Monthly Child Benefit?

February 17, 2021 –
President Biden, the House Ways & Means Committee, and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) agree: They want to increase child benefits to parents who work and...
Individual Taxes

Increasing the Childless EITC Is A Good Start; It Should Include Students Too

February 15, 2021 –
President Biden and House Way & Means Committee Democrats have proposed increasing the earned income tax credit (EITC) for workers without children at home –...
Federal Budget and Economy

Congress Could Make COVID-19 Relief Payments Fairer, Less Costly, and More Stimulative

February 11, 2021 –
Republicans and some leading economists have raised concerns about the cost, fairness, and stimulative effects of proposed cash payments in the pandemic relief legislation Congress...
Individual Taxes

No Chance for A Romantic Dinner in Your Favorite Restaurant on Valentine’s Day? Try TPC’s Marriage Calculator Instead

February 11, 2021 –
Depressed that you won’t be dining out in a romantic restaurant with your loved one this Valentine’s Day? The Tax Policy Center has a prescription...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

TPC Finds the Ways & Means Pandemic Relief Plan Mostly Helps Low- and Moderate-Income Households, But Higher Income Families Benefit as Well

February 10, 2021 –
The major tax provisions of the pandemic relief bill proposed by House Ways & Means Committee Democrats on January 8 would reduce 2021 federal taxes...
Individual Taxes

Advancing Child Tax Credit Payments Makes Good Sense, But the IRS Will Need Funds to Pull It Off.

February 9, 2021 –
The plan to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) proposed yesterday by House Ways & Means Committee Democrats included an important new feature—the IRS would...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Could the United States Pay for Reparations?

February 3, 2021 –
A few years ago, Ta-Nehesi Coates wrote a powerful essay, “The Case for Reparations” for The Atlantic . Reparations, he affirmed, would help close the...
Individual Taxes

What Do You Think About Taxes?

February 3, 2021 –
We’re one month into 2021. There’s a pandemic, an economic slump, and a new president and vice president. Congress is considering another pandemic relief bill and may address new tax proposals too. And tax season starts next week. There’s no time like the present to ask my friends and family what they think about taxes!
Individual Taxes

How Biden Can Expand And Better Target the Child Tax Credit

February 2, 2021 –
In a recent blog , I looked at two ways Congress could refocus those $1,400 per person relief payments on those who need it most...
Federal Budget and Economy

Another Way to Target Pandemic Relief Payments: Help Those Who Were Financially Hurt the Most In 2020

February 1, 2021 –
Some Senate Republicans say they want to scale back President Biden’s proposed $1,400 relief payments. Last week, my Tax Policy Center colleague Howard Gleckman proposed...
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State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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