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Individual Taxes

A Penny for Your Sugar: Setting a Price on Sin

April 1, 2015 –
What do you have to drink in your refrigerator? I’ve got kids in grade school, and our fridge always holds their favorite: Juice boxes filled with...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Medicare “Doc Fix” That Isn’t

March 26, 2015 –
As you listen to House Democrats and Republicans sing kumbaya over their bipartisan agreement to fix the Medicare physician payment syste m, keep one...
Individual Taxes

“Family Fairness Tax Reform” is Hard on Poor Families

March 19, 2015 –
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) made a big splash with their “ Economic Growth and Family Fairness Tax Plan ” last month, which among...
Individual Taxes

Who’s Afraid of Income Taxes? New Interactive TPC Tools To Help You Understand the 1040

March 18, 2015 –
Need help understanding the 1040 as we enter the homestretch of this year’s tax filing season? The Tax Policy Center has created a new interactive...
Individual Taxes

Dynamic Scoring Forum: Inside the Black Box

March 17, 2015 –
This is one of a series of TaxVox guest blogs discussing dynamic scoring . Whether dynamic scoring for official revenue estimates is a good or bad...
Individual Taxes

Can Rube Goldberg Save the Highway Trust Fund?

March 16, 2015 –
In principle, the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is simple. Drivers pay a federal gas tax when they purchase fuel, the revenue goes to the HTF, and the...
Individual Taxes

What We Hear When We Talk About Taxes... Musings of a Tax Hound

March 4, 2015 –
It’s been just over a year since I started posting TPC’s Daily Deduction. It’s high time I let you in on a little secret: Whenever...
Individual Taxes

Cutting Capital Gains Taxes is a Dead End, Not a Step on the Road to a Consumption Tax

March 3, 2015 –
One of the most useful insights of public economics is the "theory of second best." The idea is that adopting some but not all of the features of...
Individual Taxes

What if We Funded Public Education Like Affordable Care Act Health Insurance?

February 27, 2015 –
The Tax Policy Center’s recent panel discussion on the Affordable Care Act’s tax-based system of subsidies and penalties highlighted the convoluted...
Individual Taxes

Dynamic Scoring Forum: Now We Really Need More Information

February 25, 2015 –
This is one of a series of guest TaxVox blog posts discussing dynamic scoring House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has claimed that...