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

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Individual Taxes

Would Extending More Generous Tax Credits Increase The Number Of Non-Income Tax Payers?

August 25, 2021 –
Would Extending More Generous Tax Credits Increase The Number Of Non-Income Tax Payers? We know the pandemic and the policy response to it dramatically increased...
Individual Taxes

How Can Congress Protect Families Who Receive Excessive Child Tax Credit Payments?

August 10, 2021 –
Families began receiving monthly Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments on July 15. For many, those regular payments—currently permitted through the end of the year—will combat...
Individual Taxes

IRS Set to Deliver Advance Monthly Payments: Needs Ability to Update Bank Information

May 25, 2021 –
Starting on July 15, the IRS will begin distributing a monthly Child Tax Credit payment to at least 39 million families, or almost 90 percent...
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...
Individual Taxes

Should All Families Receive the Child Tax Credit?

April 7, 2021 –
Last month, my parents received their third round of economic impact payments through the American Rescue Plan (ARP). They decided to turn the proceeds into their own "stimulus payments" for their seven grandchildren.
Individual Taxes

The Child Tax Credit Grows Up to Lift Millions of Children Out of Poverty

March 16, 2021 –
Last week, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law. And the Child Tax Credit (CTC) that began life in 1998 as a...
Individual Taxes

Should IRS or Social Security Administer A Monthly Child Benefit?

February 17, 2021 –
President Biden, the House Ways & Means Committee, and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) agree: They want to increase child benefits to parents who work and...
Federal Budget and Economy

Congress Could Make COVID-19 Relief Payments Fairer, Less Costly, and More Stimulative

February 11, 2021 –
Republicans and some leading economists have raised concerns about the cost, fairness, and stimulative effects of proposed cash payments in the pandemic relief legislation Congress...
Individual Taxes

Advancing Child Tax Credit Payments Makes Good Sense, But the IRS Will Need Funds to Pull It Off.

February 9, 2021 –
The plan to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) proposed yesterday by House Ways & Means Committee Democrats included an important new feature—the IRS would...
Individual Taxes

How Biden Can Expand And Better Target the Child Tax Credit

February 2, 2021 –
In a recent blog , I looked at two ways Congress could refocus those $1,400 per person relief payments on those who need it most...
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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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