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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...

COVID-19-Related Policies Can Better Boost the Economy By Targeting Less To Savers

June 8, 2020 –
Congress has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic-induced economic slowdown by putting hundreds of billions of dollars directly into people’s pockets. Much of this came from...
Individual Taxes

HEROES Act Would Expand The EITC For Childless Workers And Help Fight Recession

June 3, 2020 –
The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act , HEROES Act, would substantially increase the earned income tax credit (EITC) for workers without children...
State and Local Issues

No State is Immune From COVID-19’s Economic And Fiscal Fallout

May 27, 2020 –
The 50 states are diverse, but in the COVID-19 pandemic era, they share a key challenge: An economic and fiscal crisis of a size and...
State and Local Issues

TPC Analyzes Five Ways To Replace The SALT Deduction Cap

May 14, 2020 –
The $10,000 annual limit on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction was one of the most contentious provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and...
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,...
Individual Taxes

The IRS Could Speed Up Coronavirus Rebates By Opening Secure Phone Lines

April 28, 2020 –
The IRS has done an impressive job delivering over 80 million rebate payments authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. But...
Individual Taxes

Are Dead People Eligible For Coronavirus Recovery Rebates?

April 27, 2020 –
Can heirs keep a Coronavirus Recovery Rebate that the Internal Revenue Service sent to a dead person? If the decedent passed away this year, the...
State and Local Issues

Census of Governments Illustrates Declining Aid to Localities, Other Trends in State and Local Finance

April 21, 2020 –
COVID-19 is placing an unprecedented strain on local economies, hospital systems , health departments , and budgets . To weather the storm and continue to...
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Brief

State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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