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Individual Taxes

Family Security Act 2.0 Child Allowance Would Help Families with Kids, with Drawbacks for Single Parents

December 8, 2022 –
The Family Security Act 2.0 (FSA 2.0) framework introduced this past June by Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Richard Burr (R-NC) emerged...

Volunteer Tax Prep Is A Crash Course in Pandemic Tax Policy

April 25, 2022 –
A few Tax Policy Center staffers and I spend tax season volunteering for the IRS's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, providing free tax preparation...
Individual Taxes

Are Taxes Complicated? Compared to What?

April 15, 2022 –
As the April 18 deadline for filing income tax rapidly approaches, many people will complain about how complicated the process is. But there is a...

Could Tax Incentives Help Recruit and Retain Teachers?

December 1, 2021 –
The “Great Resignation” appears to have reached our public education workforce, if not the entire country’s. The situation has grown so dire that schools are closing or educating children remotely for days at a time, not due to the pandemic-related health risks but because of staffing shortages.
Individual Taxes

A Carbon Tax is Not the Solution to Global Climate Change

October 5, 2021 –
The definition of insanity, according to a famous quotation (often mis-attributed to Albert Einstein) is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Clean Energy Tax Credits Can’t Do the Work of a Carbon Tax

October 5, 2021 –
As another season of record-breaking heat, wildfires, and hurricanes unfolds, Congress is debating how to address climate change and fund green infrastructure in its $3.5...
Individual Taxes

Are State Tax-Credit Scholarships The Best Way to Support School Choice?

June 2, 2021 –
Should states offer businesses tax credits to accelerate a family's shift to private school?

Should Government Use Tax Incentives to Encourage People to Get The COVID-19 Vaccine?

May 5, 2021 –
Tax incentives can encourage action that supports the public good—like lifting children out of poverty, giving to charity, pursuing higher education, or using alternatives to fossil fuels. How about helping end a global pandemic?
Individual Taxes

The Child Tax Credit Grows Up to Lift Millions of Children Out of Poverty

March 16, 2021 –
Last week, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law. And the Child Tax Credit (CTC) that began life in 1998 as a...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Permanently Extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, President Trump Would Cut Taxes by $1.1 Trillion through 2030

October 27, 2020 –
During each presidential election, the Tax Policy Center analyzes the tax policies of the two major candidates. This year, TPC estimated the effects of Democratic...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

  • Tax Professor Daniel Hemel
Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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