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Federal Budget and Economy

House GOP Plan To Repeal IRA Incentives Would Hike Taxes For Households, Tilted Toward High-Income Earners

May 3, 2023 –
House Republicans on April 26 passed legislation on a party-line vote a bill that would rescind many Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) clean energy tax incentives in exchange...
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Individual Taxes

Details Emerge On How The IRS Will Navigate The $400K Pledge

April 25, 2023 –
The veil has lifted (at least partway) on the administration’s two-year-old pledge that the IRS would not use its $80 billion budget boost to increase...
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Individual Taxes

Fixing The IRS Will Require Much More Than Hiring Additional Staff

April 19, 2023 –
As usual, the politicians are missing the point: Success or failure of the IRS’s ambitious plan to spend $80 billion in new money won’t be...
Federal Budget and Economy

The IRS Thinks Big About How To Spend $80 Billion

April 11, 2023 –
The Internal Revenue Service has taken a major step forward with its release of a plan detailing how the agency will invest the ten-year $80...
Federal Budget and Economy

A Rundown of Biden’s Proposed Changes To The Taxation Of Foreign Income

March 31, 2023 –
As expected, President Biden’s 2024 proposed budget included several changes to the tax treatment of foreign income. Although prior attempts to rewrite these tax rules...
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Business Taxes

Stock Buyback Excise Taxes: What We Know And Don’t Know

March 10, 2023 –
Companies now spend more than a $1 trillion annually to repurchase their stock, in lieu of paying higher dividends to their shareholders, or investing more...
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Individual Taxes

The IRS Misses Its Deadline For Completing A Plan To Spend $80 Billion In New Money

February 22, 2023 –
Yes, I’ve known for months that my taxes are due by April 18. But I’m changing tax preparers. And I’m really busy at work. And...
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Federal Budget and Economy

Monitoring the IRS Commissioner Confirmation Hearing? TPC’s Writings Can Help You Prep

February 14, 2023 –
Valentine’s Day might not be too festive for Danny Werfel this year. He’s got what will probably be the most difficult test of his professional...
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Individual Taxes

Tax Cheats, Dodgers, Avoiders, And Evaders

January 27, 2023 –
The news is filled with stories about conflicts between taxpayers and tax collectors. Just a few weeks ago a New York jury convicted the Trump...
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Understanding Revenue Implications For State Pass-Through-Entity Taxes

January 19, 2023 –
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction managed to survive attempts to reform or scrap...
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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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