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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How Biden’s No-Tax Pledge Could Sink His Climate Change Initiative

April 9, 2021 –
Nowhere is President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda more in conflict than in his triple aim of funding a major infrastructure initiative , attacking climate change...
Business Taxes

Build Back a Better Revenue Base with Environmental Taxes

April 7, 2021 –
Once the US economy recovers from the COVID-19 crisis, the federal government will need significant additional revenues to reduce its ballooning deficit. Congress and President...
Business Taxes

Why Carbon Taxes Are So Hard To Pass

August 15, 2019 –
Why Carbon Taxes Are So Hard To Pass Economists love carbon taxes . According to polls, so do roughly two-thirds of Americans. Yet voters in...
Business Taxes

How Should The US Spend Carbon Tax Revenue?

January 24, 2019 –
The debate over a carbon tax is about two big things: The most obvious is whether a tax at politically acceptable levels could significantly slow...
Business Taxes

Economists Love Carbon Taxes. Voters Don't.

December 27, 2018 –
Economists—both liberal and conservative—love carbon taxes. The levies, they say, would create market incentives for people to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels and, more...

How Should Government Return Carbon Taxes To Households?

December 12, 2018 –
Carbon dividends are the hottest idea in climate policy. A diverse mix of progressive and conservative voices are backing the idea of returning carbon tax...

Bill Nordhaus, The Nobel Prize, And Carbon Taxes

October 10, 2018 –
Bill Nordhaus, Climate Change, And Carbon Taxes Two events this week raised the profile of carbon taxes. The first was a report by the UN...
Business Taxes

The White House’s (Very Brief) Flirtation with a Market-Based Solution to Climate Change

April 7, 2017 –
For a brief shining moment the other day, it looked as if the Trump Administration was considering a carbon tax. Combined with its aggressive effort...
Business Taxes

What Should Government Do With Carbon Tax Revenues?

February 14, 2017 –
The other day, a high-powered group of former senior Republican policy advisers and business executives proposed replacing regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gases with a...
State and Local Issues

Why an unusual coalition defeated Washington state’s carbon tax initiative

November 14, 2016 –
Last Tuesday, Washington State voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have created the first carbon tax in the United States.
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Brief

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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