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Individual Taxes

Would Trimming the U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Matter?

October 28, 2010 –
A terrific story the other day by Jesse Drucker at Bloomberg got me thinking: Would it really matter very much if the U.S. cut its...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Secret Campaign Giving and Abusing the Tax Law

October 26, 2010 –
The two big stories of this campaign season are voter backlash against Democrats and the rise of the so-called Super PACs-- massive campaign funding organizations...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Why Nobody Noticed Obama’s Tax Cuts

October 21, 2010 –
Michael Cooper over at The New York Times stopped off at the Pig Pickin and Politickin rally in North Carolina the other day to ask...
Federal Budget and Economy

Pledging Our Way to Fiscal Disaster

October 19, 2010 –
Three-quarters of Americans believe that entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security “will create major economic problems” over the next 25 years. But two-thirds...
Individual Taxes

The Biggest Tax Policy Mistake of the Year

October 15, 2010 –
The fine folks over at the New York Times Freakonomics blog recently asked me to identify the “biggest potential tax policy mistake that might be...
Individual Taxes

Taxes and Income Inequality

October 14, 2010 –
Lori Montgomery’s nice piece in the The Washington Post this morning described how some congressional Democrats want to use the looming tax increases on high-earners...
Individual Taxes

The Year of Magical Thinking

October 12, 2010 –
It’s never really fun to say “I told you so.” Well, it’s a little fun. The Germans even invented a word for this – Schadenfreude...
Federal Budget and Economy

Rising Federal Revenues—But Only from Firms and the Fed

October 11, 2010 –
Federal revenues rose nearly 3 percent from fiscal year 2009 to FY2010. But virtually the whole increase came from higher corporate income taxes and a...
Federal Budget and Economy

How To Cut the Budget Deficit

October 7, 2010 –
Kudos to Bill Galston at the Brookings Institution and Maya MacGuineas at the New America Foundation for putting on the table a credible plan to...
Individual Taxes

State Estate Taxes: Windfall Gold in Expiring Tax Cuts

October 5, 2010 –
As Congress delays action on extending the 2001-03 tax cuts, state revenue officers may be secretly hoping for continued legislative paralysis. Why? Because the federal...
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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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