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Business Taxes

Should Congress Pump Money Into Businesses By Shifting The Timing Of Tax Benefits?

June 19, 2020 –
Should Congress manipulate the timing of business tax benefits to support firms in the midst of the COVID-19 economic slump? And if so, how?
Federal Budget and Economy

TPC Updates Its Online Briefing Book

June 11, 2020 –
To follow significant fiscal changes, such as those being driven by the legislative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, it helps to have a background in...
Business Taxes

Congress May Soon Choose Between Wage Credits Or More Unemployment Benefits

June 5, 2020 –
With the May jobless rate at 13.3 percent —an improvement over April but still terrible-- policymakers are considering many ideas to support workers in the...
Business Taxes

Capital Gains Cuts Won’t Cure the Covid-19 Economy

May 11, 2020 –
Back in 1991, Saturday Night Live spoofed politicians who see capital gains tax cuts as a panacea. In one sketch, after being frozen for eons,...
Business Taxes

Tax 101: Expenses Reimbursed With COVID-19 Aid Should Not Be Deductible

May 8, 2020 –
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the IRS are right: Because the hundreds of billions of dollars the businesses are getting through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,...
Business Taxes

Restoring The Three Martini Lunch Tax Deduction Won’t Feed The COVID-19 Economy

May 7, 2020 –
One of President Trump’s demands for the next COVID-19 relief bill is restoration of the tax deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. Since the...

Heads I Win, Tails I Win Too: Winners From The Tax Relief For Losses In The CARES Act

April 20, 2020 –
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act grants massive tax relief for business losses, but most of the benefits will be reaped by...

Who Benefits From The CARES Act Tax Cuts?

April 17, 2020 –
Over the next decade, the individual “ recovery rebate ” program will account for about half of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES)...
Business Taxes

Is A Modified Destination-Based Income Tax The Solution For Taxing Global Multinational Corporations?

April 15, 2020 –
Tax authorities around the world are in an increasingly contentious battle over how to tax the income of multinational corporations . In 2017, the US...
Individual Taxes

"Taxes In America" Is A Valuable And Painless Look At How The US Raises Revenue

March 10, 2020 –
If you are not a public finance economist and want to understand how the US tax code works, pick up the new version of Taxes...
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State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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