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TaxVox: Child tax credit (CTC)/Child and dependent care tax credit (CDCTC)

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Individual Taxes

Biden’s Child Tax Proposal Would Help Many But Presents Administrative Challenges

March 31, 2023 –
President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget would revive 2021’s enhanced child tax credit (CTC) with some new twists that seek to make the credit work...
Individual Taxes

Family Security Act 2.0 Child Allowance Would Help Families with Kids, with Drawbacks for Single Parents

December 8, 2022 –
The Family Security Act 2.0 (FSA 2.0) framework introduced this past June by Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Richard Burr (R-NC) emerged...
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Individual Taxes

Making The TCJA’s Individual Tax Cuts Permanent Would Add More than $3 Trillion To The Federal Debt, Mostly Benefit High-Income Households

November 30, 2022 –
During the recent congressional election campaign, House Republicans said one of their top priorities would be to make permanent the individual tax changes in the...
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Individual Taxes

Why Aren’t Kids A Higher Priority For Congress?

November 22, 2022 –
During the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, Congress substantially increased benefits for children, including big boosts in the Child Tax Credit...
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Individual Taxes

Comparing The Fiscal Costs Of Tax Breaks For Children Versus Businesses

October 17, 2022 –
As the year winds down, Congress will need to decide what to do on several tax fronts, including whether to extend more favorable treatment of...
Individual Taxes

What Can We Learn from Boston’s Expanded CTC Outreach to Immigrant Communities?

October 7, 2022 –
Although last year’s temporary expansion of the child tax credit (CTC) dramatically reduced child poverty across the US, government outreach efforts struggled to connect immigrant families with their tax benefits.
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Federal Budget and Economy

The Tax Debate Is Just Beginning

October 6, 2022 –
The ink on the Inflation Reduction Act is barely dry, but already there are reasons to think Congress may take up more tax issues once...
Individual Taxes

Why Congress Should Restore The Expanded Child Tax Credit In A Lame Duck Session

September 28, 2022 –
In 2021, Congress enacted sweeping legislation that temporarily cut child poverty nearly in half . A key feature was the expanded child tax credit (CTC),...

Immigrants Were Less Likely to Have Received Expanded CTC; Those Who Did Used It for Essentials

August 29, 2022 –
Immigrant parents were less likely to have heard about the 2021 expanded child tax credit (CTC) than parents who were born in the United States,...
Individual Taxes

Let the Child Tax Credit Work

July 7, 2022 –
Congress has a chance to reduce child poverty by about one-third by making permanent the Child Tax Credit (CTC) that was in effect during 2021...
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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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