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Federal Budget and Economy

It’s Long Overdue for Public Finance Scholars to Study Racism in the Tax Code

November 3, 2021 –
The murder of George Floyd, in May 2020, sparked a national reckoning and renewed attention to issues of racial equity and justice. This long-overdue awakening...
Federal Budget and Economy

Settling the Dust of the Coal Industry

November 3, 2021 –
Coal miners increasingly are victims of a cruel paradox. Even as production declines, more are suffering from deadly black lung disease. Yet falling production and...
Federal Budget and Economy

What is Dynamic Scoring? TPC’s Ben Page and John Buhl Discuss the Basics

November 1, 2021 –
With Congress in the midst of an intense debate over a big new tax and spending bill, policymakers are battling over the costs and economic...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why Progressivity in Tax Policy Is Not A Simple Matter

October 20, 2021 –
Policymakers and even policy analysts often consider the progressivity of specific proposals independently from the broader systems in which they operate. Consequently, they often leave...
Federal Budget and Economy

Low Interest Rates Have Implications for Tax Policy

September 23, 2021 –
As of this morning, yields on 10-year Treasury bonds stood at 1.33 percent. The yield on TIPS bonds–which are adjusted for inflation–was negative. These astonishingly...

What’s Easier: Killing Aliens, Or Levying A Vehicle-Mileage Tax?

September 1, 2021 –
if we want more of a good thing, don’t tax it. So how should we think about the vehicle-mileage tax (VMT) that raises the costs of driving planet-friendly hybrid or electric vehicles?

Searching for Supply-Side Effects of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

July 6, 2021 –
The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) was built on the idea that lower business and corporate tax rates, new domestic investment incentives, and...

Treasury Will Allow States to Take ARP Funds and Cut Taxes, With Some Guardrails

May 13, 2021 –
On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department released much-anticipated guidance for the American Recovery Plan ’s (ARP) $350 billion in direct state and local aid ,...
Individual Taxes

Monthly or Quarterly Child Tax Credit Payments? Both Have Value

April 28, 2021 –
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told the Senate Finance Committee on April 13 that the agency could begin delivering monthly 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments...
Federal Budget and Economy

Tax Expenditures Remain A Significant Share of The Economy

April 20, 2021 –
Despite years of widespread discussion among lawmakers about the need to broaden the federal income tax base, tax expenditures have remained remarkably stable as a...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

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

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