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Individual Taxes

TPC’s New 2015 Digital Look

January 7, 2015 –
As you might have noticed, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center website just had a makeover. It’s the beginning of a process that will make our...
Individual Taxes

Taxes, Charitable Gifts, the ACA, and Ineffective Deadlines

December 30, 2014 –
Scrambling to make a last-minute charitable donation to beat the New Year’s Eve deadline for a 2014 tax deduction? Take a deep breath and ask...
Individual Taxes

House GOP Leadership Would Require Dynamic Scoring of Some Tax Bills. Will It Matter?

December 24, 2014 –
Last night, the House Republican leadership proposed new rules that would require the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office...
Federal Budget and Economy

Will Immigrants Get A Tax Windfall From Refundable Credits?

December 12, 2014 –
In the end-of-the-year congressional scramble, lawmakers scuttled an effort to permanently extend a number of tax breaks—largely because many feared...
Individual Taxes

A Repatriation Tax Holiday for US Multinationals? Four Contagious Illusions

December 10, 2014 –
U.S.-based multinationals hold $2.1 trillion in foreign cash and insist that the only way they can feasibly bring that money back home is if Congress...
Individual Taxes

Don’t Count the Feds Out Yet

December 9, 2014 –
In a provocative Washington Post column , Brookings Institution scholar Bruce Katz argues that the federal government is becoming irrelevant —...
Individual Taxes

Are Tax-Free ABLE Accounts The Right Financial Solution For People With Disabilities?

December 4, 2014 –
For the first time since 2010, Congress may be about to acknowledge that people with disabilities cannot have a decent quality of life with limited...
Individual Taxes

Why the More Generous Child and Earned Income Tax Credits Should Be Made Permanent

December 3, 2014 –
co-authored with William G. Gale While most of the tax drama these days is focused on the fate of 50+ mostly-business tax breaks that expired nearly...
Individual Taxes

How To End the Tax Extender Drama: Stop Calling Them Extenders—And Make Congress Pay For Them

December 2, 2014 –
There are two simple ways to end the tiresome seasonal drama over faux-temporary tax cuts known (with a stunning lack of accuracy) as the extenders...
Individual Taxes

The Politics and Policy of Tax Extenders

December 1, 2014 –
‘Tis the season for bad tax policy… In what has become an annual ritual, Congress is struggling with what to do with the 70 or so “temporary” tax...
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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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