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Individual Taxes

The Tax Vox 2010 Lump of Coal Award, Job-Killing Edition

December 23, 2010 –
It's time for Tax Vox's fourth annual Lump of Coal Award, given to 2010's worst moments in fiscal policy. Bad law, outrageous rhetoric, and months...
Individual Taxes

Obama-GOP Compromise Tax Plan on TPC's Tax Calculator

December 22, 2010 –
In a flurry of lame-duck activity, Congress quickly passed the Obama-GOP compromise tax plan and the president signed it into law. TPC has incorporated the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How the Tax Deal Helps Manhattan Real Estate Developers In the Name of 9/11

December 21, 2010 –
Why is Congress continuing to subsidize lower Manhattan real estate developers nearly a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center? While...
Federal Budget and Economy

Johnny Depp and the New Tax Law

December 17, 2010 –
When the President signs the big tax deal later today, will he be cutting income taxes for most families or sparing them a tax hike?...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Obama-GOP Tax Deal May Be Bipartisan, But It Isn't Stimulus and It Isn't Smart

December 16, 2010 –
A modest thought experiment: Here is a check for $858 billion. Your job is to boost short-term economic growth. What would you do with the...
Individual Taxes

Resurrecting the Estate Tax as a Shadow of Its Former Self

December 14, 2010 –
For nearly a year, we’ve had no federal estate tax. The estates of those who died in 2010—including at least five billionaires—have passed to their...
Individual Taxes

Obama Should Send His Fiscal Commission’s Budget Plan to Congress

December 9, 2010 –
If ever President Obama needed a reason to back the recommendations of his fiscal commission, the tax deal he’s just cut with congressional Republicans should...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Obama-GOP Deal: A Tax Hike for the Working Poor

December 8, 2010 –
Ever since the 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama has argued passionately for extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all but the richest 2 percent of...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Obama-GOP Tax Deal: Winners and Losers

December 7, 2010 –
On the defensive for cutting a $700 billion tax deal with Republicans, President Obama argued that the agreement is important because it would benefit middle-class...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Obama and the Republicans Reach an Odious Tax Deal

December 7, 2010 –
The tax deal reached by President Obama and congressional Republicans (but not Hill Democrats) includes a bit of good, some bad, and some really ugly...