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Individual Taxes

Congress Fiddles While Bridges Crumble

April 14, 2014 –
It isn’t news that congressional Democrats and Republicans have agreed to spend the time between now and the November elections messaging, rather...
Individual Taxes

What’s Behind That 1040? Check Out TPC’s Interactive Tax Forms

April 9, 2014 –
Federal income taxes are complicated. That’s why roughly 90 percent of us either hire someone to prepare our tax returns or use computer software to...
Individual Taxes

Seven Tax Issues Facing Small Business

April 9, 2014 –
Today I had the chance to testify before the House Small Business Committee on the many tax issues facing small business. Here are my opening remarks...
Individual Taxes

Tax Expenditures for Asset-Building: Costly, Regressive, and Ineffective

April 9, 2014 –
Most federal subsidies aimed at helping households accumulate financial and tangible assets are delivered through tax expenditures—spending through...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

If You Have High Income, Your Taxes Are Going Up

April 8, 2014 –
As the April 15 deadline for filing 2013 income taxes nears, most of us are finding that Uncle Sam will take about the same share of our income as...
Individual Taxes

Two Ways to Fix the Corporate Income Tax: Internationalize it or Kill It

April 4, 2014 –
In an important new paper , Eric Toder of the Tax Policy Center and Alan Viard of the American Enterprise Institute say that corporate tax reforms...
Individual Taxes

Why Most Tax Extenders Should Not Be Permanent

April 3, 2014 –
What to do about the tax extenders—or, as my colleague Donald Marron calls them, the “tax expirers” ? Restoring the current crop (most of which...
Individual Taxes

An EPA-Sanctioned State-Based Carbon Tax Could Reduce Emissions and Improve State Finances

April 1, 2014 –
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is developing a proposed rule due out in June that could allow states to use carbon excise taxes or...
Individual Taxes

You Could Owe Capital Gains Taxes When You Spend Bitcoin

March 27, 2014 –
The IRS determined this week that Bitcoin and other digital currencies should be taxed as property, not currency. This means Bitcoin transactions...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Mission Impossible? An Upcoming TPC Panel Will Explore the Politics of Tax Reform

March 27, 2014 –
Everyone agrees that the tax code is a mess. So why is it so hard for Congress and the President to fix it? On Monday, the Tax Policy Center will...