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Business Taxes

The Supreme Court Is Hearing A Case That Could Block the IRS From Halting Abusive Tax Shelters

November 30, 2020 –
Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in CIC Services v. IRS, a case that threatens to damage the integrity of the tax...

How Much More Money Could The IRS Collect If Congress Gave Them More Money?

September 28, 2020 –
Would increasing the Internal Revenue Service’s funding for audits increase tax collections by more than the cost? Yes, if the funds are spent wisely.
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,...
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The IRS Data Book Tells A Story of Shrinking Staff, Fewer Audits, and Less Customer Service.

June 7, 2019 –
The IRS published its annual trove of tax statistics Internal Revenue Service Data Book, 2018 on May 20. On its face, the volume is a...
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Business Taxes

Treasury’s New Pass-Through Rules Double Down On The Deduction’s Regressivity

August 14, 2018 –
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) contains a special 20-percent individual income tax deduction for owners of pass-through businesses that was always going to...
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Business Taxes

Obama’s Anti-Abuse Rules Slashed Inversions

July 13, 2018 –
This week, the Treasury Department finalized the last set of Obama-era regulations intended to curb tax-motivated corporate inversions. An inversion arises when a U.S. corporation...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Would Bill Gates’s proposed robot tax help workers?

March 14, 2017 –
Automation may soon affect even industries and jobs we thought were immune, so what should countries do to prepare for those left jobless and behind?...
Federal Budget and Economy

Tax Reform Is Possible, But It Won’t be Easy

November 4, 2015 –
At a Tax Policy Center conference on tax reform yesterday, Jason Furman, the chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, said that a major...
Federal Budget and Economy

Finance Committee Working Groups: Tax Reform is Hard

July 8, 2015 –
After six months and two extensions, the Senate Finance Committee’s five tax reform working groups presented their reports today to panel chair Orrin...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Mission Impossible? An Upcoming TPC Panel Will Explore the Politics of Tax Reform

March 27, 2014 –
Everyone agrees that the tax code is a mess. So why is it so hard for Congress and the President to fix it? On Monday, the Tax Policy Center will...
Brief

State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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