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Individual Taxes

Understanding the Heated Debate Over Cryptocurrencies and Tax Compliance

August 10, 2021 –
Even close followers of tax news may have been caught off guard when compliance for cryptocurrencies became the hot topic in the Senate’s debate over...
Individual Taxes

A New Study Suggests Congress Could Raise Money By Increasing Capital Gains Tax Rates To 47 Percent. But There Is A Catch

September 16, 2020 –
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has proposed raising tax rates on long-term capital gains income for the highest-income investors.

Would Wealth Taxes Solve Wealth Inequality?

January 15, 2020 –
Democracies become oligarchies when wealth is too concentrated. So begins a letter by Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Three Largely Ignored Tax Policy Issues When Taxing The Wealthy

January 8, 2020 –
The current debate over wealth taxes mostly focuses on whether the very rich are undertaxed, but gives little attention to the most efficient and fairest...
Individual Taxes

Don't Try To Mark To Market Capital Gains. Tax Unrealized Gains At Death Instead

November 21, 2019 –
Wealth taxation by other means
Individual Taxes

Opportunity Zones May Someday Help Poor Communities. They Already Are A Tax Shelter For High-Income Investors

September 5, 2019 –
New York Times reporters Jesse Drucker and Eric Lipton wrote a well-reported piece the other day on that Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s Opportunity Zone...
Individual Taxes

How Government Tax And Transfer Policy Promotes Wealth Inequality

February 5, 2019 –
Federal tax and spending policies are worsening the problem of economic inequality. But the tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy are only part of...

Individuals Pay Very Little Individual Income Tax on Capital Income

September 6, 2018 –
Most capital income earned by the wealthy never is taxed at the individual level, in part because assets are often not sold and their gains...
Individual Taxes

Who Benefits From The Zero Percent Tax Bracket For Capital Gains And Dividends?

July 31, 2017 –
Like other forms of income, long-term capital gains and qualified dividends are taxed at graduated rates. Long-term capital gains and qualified dividends, however, receive preferential...
Individual Taxes

How Capital Gains Affected Average Income Tax Rates From 2001-2014

March 15, 2017 –
This post is part of the Tax Policy Center’s series, Tax Line , which digs into the data behind the day’s most pressing tax policy...
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State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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