TaxVox: Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Warren’s Wealth Tax Revenue May Not Meet Expectations

August 5, 2019 –

Presidential hopeful and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has proposed a tax on wealth that would make ultra-millionaires pay 2 cents! Yep, that is what she...

Rethinking The Presidential Election Campaign Fund

July 25, 2019 –

When you filed your tax return last spring, did you check off the "Presidential Election Campaign" box on the Form 1040? Didn’t think so. Hardly...

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...