TaxVox: Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Ways & Means Committee Takes Its Demand For Trump’s Tax Returns To Court

July 2, 2019 –

The House Ways and Means Committee today filed suit in federal court demanding President Trump’s 2013-2019 tax returns. The Committee says it is seeking Trump’s...

Individual Taxes

The Economic Security Project Proposes A Simpler And More Generous Tax Credit For Low-Income Workers And Caregivers

July 2, 2019 –

Expanding the earned income tax credit (EITC) has support from a wide range of policy experts. Yet the expansion ideas come in many different forms...

Alice Rivlin: The George Washington Of The Congressional Budget Office

June 20, 2019 –

On June 21, the family and friends of Alice Rivlin will join with much of Washington’s public policy community to celebrate her life and extraordinary...

The SECURE Act Falls Far Short Of Enhancing Retirement Security

June 17, 2019 –

Congress seems about ready to pass a package of about 28 retirement and pension plan changes the House calls the SECURE (Setting Every Community Up...

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

A New Congressional Study Finds Little Economic Benefit From The 2017 Tax Cuts

May 29, 2019 –

A new Congressional Research Service report finds that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had little measureable effect on the overall US economy in...

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How Warren’s Promises May Exceed Her Ability To Pay, And Teach Voters An Important Lesson

April 24, 2019 –

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed a long list of detailed, ambitious, and very expensive campaign ideas. And she has described how she’d pay for them:...

The Three Numbers To Know About The TCJA In 2018

April 18, 2019 –

As tax filing season came to an end, lots of people wanted to know how much the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) affected 2018...

Four Ways To Tell When A Tax Proposal Is Serious

April 11, 2019 –

With the new Congress well into its legislative season and many Democratic presidential hopefuls in full campaign mode, policy ideas are flying fast and furious...