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Federal Budget and Economy

The Budget Deal: A First, Wobbly Step

August 1, 2011 –
The new budget deal comes in two main parts. The first imposes cuts in discretionary spending of almost $1 trillion over the next decade. The...
Federal Budget and Economy

Unearned Interest in the Homebuyer Tax Credit

July 29, 2011 –
Taxpayers who took the 2008 tax credit for new homebuyers were unhappy when Congress made the credit much more generous in 2009 . People who...
Individual Taxes

Why Do People Pay No Federal Income Tax?

July 27, 2011 –
Much has been made of TPC’s estimate that fully 46 percent of Americans will pay no federal individual income tax this year. Commentators have often...
Individual Taxes

What the Federal Debt Limit Has to do with States (and Not)

July 22, 2011 –
Much has been written about how a failure to reach agreement on the federal debt limit would affect the economy and global financial markets. Lately,...
Federal Budget and Economy

Compromise

July 21, 2011 –
The debt limit contretemps in Washington during these sweltering summer days threatens to end in financial disaster if Congress and the president can’t agree on...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why Does the Gang of Six Want to Repeal the CLASS Act?

July 21, 2011 –
The bipartisan deficit reduction plan proposed by the so-called “Gang of Six” senators includes very few specifics. Oddly, one would repeal the Community Living Assistance...
Individual Taxes

Does the Gang of Six Cut Taxes or Raise Them?

July 20, 2011 –
Here’s a quick multiple choice quiz about the Gang of Six’s new budget proposal. Over the next ten years, would the proposal: a. Cut taxes...
Individual Taxes

The Senate Gang of Six’s Budget Plan Aims at Taxes

July 20, 2011 –
The Senate’s bipartisan on again/off again Gang of Six has proposed an ambitious tax and spending package that closely follows the plan offered six months...
Federal Budget and Economy

Tom Coburn: Tax Subsidies Are Socialism

July 19, 2011 –
Give Sen. Tom Coburn(R-OK) credit. In a city where obfuscation and misdirection are the coin of the realm, the conservative Republican lets you know exactly...
Individual Taxes

Tax Dodge Makes for Great Vacationing

July 8, 2011 –
I’ve been collecting shells on the beaches on the beautiful barrier island Assateague and marveling at those famous marsh-dwelling ponies for about fifteen years. Until...
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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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