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Individual Taxes

The Fight Over Medicare Double Counting

May 9, 2012 –
The recent double-counting dispute isn’t just about politics; it also reveals a flaw in budgeting for Medicare Part A. Budget experts are waging a spirited...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Buffett Rule Revenue

May 4, 2012 –
Critics of the Buffett Rule often argue that the idea is hardly worth the trouble since it would raise taxes on less than a tenth...
Individual Taxes

Is the U.S. Tax System Fair?

May 3, 2012 –
These days, some people want to impose a new Buffett tax on millionaires while others are outraged that low income people pay no income taxes...
Individual Taxes

Five Challenges for the IRS’s New Capital Gains Reporting Rules

May 1, 2012 –
Sellers of stocks and other assets have always had to calculate their cost basis (generally, what they paid for the investment) in order to figure...
Individual Taxes

Time for a Serious Review of Tax Extenders

April 26, 2012 –
A House panel today began what could be the beginning of a remarkable exercise: It is reviewing the merits of dozens of expiring tax provisions...
Individual Taxes

Why Romney and Obama Pay the Taxes They Pay

April 26, 2012 –
By now, many readers of TaxVox know how much Barack Obama and Mitt Romney pay in taxes. But true tax wonks are more interested in...
Individual Taxes

What Tax Reform Means for State and Local Tax and Fiscal Policy

April 25, 2012 –
In testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance this morning, I discussed what federal tax reform would mean for state and local governments and how...
Individual Taxes

The very unRepublican Small Business Tax Cut

April 24, 2012 –
My Tax Policy Center colleague Eric Toder and I are mystified by how unRepublican the House GOP’s Small Business Tax Cut Act really is. Sure,...
Individual Taxes

Is Buffett Rule a First Step Towards Tax Reform?

April 18, 2012 –
When the president first announced his Buffett Rule–that millionaires should pay at least 30 percent of their income in tax–in the State of the Union...
Individual Taxes

The Turbo Tax Paradox

April 17, 2012 –
Like many of you, I just finished my 2011 tax return. Counting worksheets, it was 59 pages long. It occurs to me that our current...
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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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