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Individual Taxes

Taxing Capital Gains at Death at A Higher Rate Than During Life

May 13, 2022 –
President Joe Biden and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) have proposed different ways to tax unrealized capital gains every year. Their shared goal...
Individual Taxes

How Democrats Who Want To Tax The Very Wealthy Are Taking A Page From Thomas Paine

May 10, 2022 –
Did President Biden and other Democrats read 18 th century revolutionary Tom Paine before they proposed their taxes on extreme wealth? Hard to know, but...
Individual Taxes

The Elephant in The Room: The Gap Between Federal Retiree Benefits and Taxes Paid

May 5, 2022 –
President Trump was afraid to tackle the dominant set of spending and tax issues facing the federal government. Ditto, so far, for President Biden. Under...
Business Taxes

Joe Manchin Just Made A Great Argument In Support of A Carbon Tax

May 3, 2022 –
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin set off environmentalists last week when he said tax credits to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicle (EV) tax credits...
Individual Taxes

Congress Can More Modestly Expand The Child Tax Credit And Still Help Very Low-Income Families

April 28, 2022 –
As President Biden and congressional Democrats make another push to reach a compromise on a social spending, climate change, and tax bill, a key issue...
Individual Taxes

How to Undertake Reform of the Charitable Deduction

April 28, 2022 –
Among its many changes, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act substantially increased the share of federal income taxpayers taking the standard deduction, leaving fewer...

Volunteer Tax Prep Is A Crash Course in Pandemic Tax Policy

April 25, 2022 –
A few Tax Policy Center staffers and I spend tax season volunteering for the IRS's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, providing free tax preparation...
State and Local Issues

States Forecast Weaker Revenue Growth Ahead of Growing Uncertainties

April 19, 2022 –
Just as state governors and legislators are figuring out how to spend their unexpected budget surpluses, global events could wipe out much of those gains...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why Another Brutal Filing Season for The IRS May Not Help It Get More Funding

April 18, 2022 –
The Internal Revenue Service has limped through yet another tax filing season, reduced to plugging staffing holes in customer service and returns processing by shifting...
Individual Taxes

Are Taxes Complicated? Compared to What?

April 15, 2022 –
As the April 18 deadline for filing income tax rapidly approaches, many people will complain about how complicated the process is. But there is a...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

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

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