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Business Taxes

The House Should Repair, Not Repeal, The ACA’s Cadillac Tax

July 16, 2019 –
The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act’s Cadillac tax on generous employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI). The bill, which...
Business Taxes

Can The Sanders Financial Transactions Tax Raise Trillions And Cut Speculation?

July 1, 2019 –
Can The Sanders Financial Transactions Tax Raise Trillions And Cut Speculation? Senator and Democratic Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed an ambitious financial transactions...
carbon tax

Distributional Effects of a Carbon Tax Depend on How the Revenue is Spent

July 19, 2018 –
Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy just released a series of papers on how a carbon tax would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, affect economic...
Business Taxes

Did The ACA Tax Kill Demand For Indoor Tanning? It’s Complicated.

August 24, 2017 –
Has the Affordable Care Act’s 10 percent tanning excise tax reduced demand for indoor tanning services? A blog posted last week in the journal Health...
Business Taxes

Five Practical Challenges Of A House-Style Border Adjustable Cash Flow Tax

February 7, 2017 –
While House and Senate GOP leaders still insist they can enact a major tax reform this year, tax experts predict it could take years for...
Business Taxes

A Broader Perspective on Corporate Tax Reform

April 26, 2016 –
Just about everyone wants to redesign the corporate tax, but there is little agreement among lawmakers or policy analysts on how to pay for such a reform. At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today , Tax Policy Center co-director Eric Toder urged lawmakers to think beyond the traditional cut-the-rates, broaden-the-base solution.
fast food
Individual Taxes

Should Governments Tax Unhealthy Foods and Drinks?

December 14, 2015 –
With obesity and diabetes at record levels, many public health experts believe governments should tax soda, sweets, junk food, and other unhealthy...
Federal Budget and Economy

Is a Consumption Tax Talk Making a Comeback?

March 31, 2015 –
Maybe it’s just because Congress is on spring break and tax wonks don’t have much to talk about, but suddenly the idea of a consumption tax is...
Individual Taxes

Cutting Capital Gains Taxes is a Dead End, Not a Step on the Road to a Consumption Tax

March 3, 2015 –
One of the most useful insights of public economics is the "theory of second best." The idea is that adopting some but not all of the features of...
Individual Taxes

A New Look at an Old Consumption Tax

June 21, 2012 –
Twenty-five years ago, Princeton economist David Bradford designed what he called the X Tax . The idea--a progressive consumption tax--generated lots of discussion among tax...
Brief

The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

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

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