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Federal Budget and Economy

The Effects Of Using New Tax Revenue To Shore Up Medicare’s Finances

February 1, 2023 –
How could new tax revenues ease Medicare’s substantial financial pressures? And how would those tax hikes affect federal revenues and the distribution of tax burdens...

President Biden’s No Tax Hike Pledge Problem

March 24, 2021 –
Nobody making under 400,000 bucks would have their taxes raised. Period. Bingo. – Joe Biden, May 22, 2020 Enacting good tax policy is hard under...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Biden’s Tax Hikes May Be A Tough Sell In 2021. What If He Paired Them With Big Refundable Tax Credits?

August 19, 2020 –
The real question for Biden is how much of his ambitious tax plan could Congress realistically pass next year.

How A VAT Could Tax The Rich And Pay For Universal Basic Income

January 30, 2020 –
The Congressional Budget Office just projected a series of $1 trillion budget deficits—as far as the eye can see. Narrowing that deficit will require not...
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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...

A Comprehensive and Accessible Analysis of Trade, Immigration, and International Taxation

February 27, 2019 –
In Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital , Kimberly Clausing has written a comprehensive and accessible analysis of three of...

How Should Government Return Carbon Taxes To Households?

December 12, 2018 –
Carbon dividends are the hottest idea in climate policy. A diverse mix of progressive and conservative voices are backing the idea of returning carbon tax...

Tax Cuts Won’t Make America Great Again

October 20, 2017 –
In a speech earlier this week, Donald Trump invoked Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts as a model for his own plan. Trump said Reagan’s tax...

My Advice To The Senate Finance Panel About Tax Reform

July 19, 2017 –
On July 18, four former assistant Treasury secretaries for tax policy testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the prospects and challenges of achieving tax...
Individual Taxes

Federal Taxes Are Very Progressive

August 11, 2016 –
The US federal tax system is highly progressive, primarily because individual income tax rates rise sharply with income and refundable tax credits lead to negative...
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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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