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Individual Taxes

Do Mandates or Tax Subsidies Do a Better Job of Boosting Savings?

September 4, 2012 –
Most policymakers and economists agree that Americans don’t save enough. But which government policy does a better job encouraging saving and investment: tax subsidies such...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Happened to Tax Reform at Mitt Romney’s Convention?

August 31, 2012 –
Yes, political conventions are costly anachronisms. But, with patience and time, one can learn quite a lot about a political party by watching, or reading,...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Feldstein's Analysis Doesn't Refute TPC Findings, It Confirms Them

August 30, 2012 –
In a recent paper , we showed that any revenue-neutral tax reform that included Governor Romney’s specific tax cuts and that met his stated goal...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Should Congress Curb Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds?

August 28, 2012 –
As politicians and their allies look for ways to finance tax rate cuts, a surprising option is getting a great deal of attention among conservatives:...
Individual Taxes

FAQs about TPC’s Analysis of the Romney Tax Plan

August 16, 2012 –
Tax Policy Center’s analysis of Governor Romney’s tax plan has elicited much comment and misinterpretation. In a new paper , Sam Brown, Bill Gale, and...
Federal Budget and Economy

Ryan’s Goal: Low Taxes and Small Government, not a Balanced Budget

August 14, 2012 –
Paul Ryan is often identified as a deficit hawk. And while he regularly talks about the importance of balanced budgets, that’s not what matters most...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Ryan Budget Plan May Be the New Centerpiece of Campaign 2012

August 13, 2012 –
Already, the Romney campaign insists that voters should pay no attention to Paul Ryan’s fiscal agenda. It is the Romney-Ryan tax and budget plan, they...
State and Local Issues

Tax Reform, Up Close and Personal

August 10, 2012 –
On Monday, I attended my first meeting of the District of Columbia Tax Reform Commission . The independent commission was authorized by the Tax Revision...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Bowles-Simpson and Romney Tax Plans Have Almost Nothing in Common

August 9, 2012 –
In the recent contretemps over Mitt Romney’s tax plan, some Romney partisans have asserted that the Massachusetts governor’s revenue plank mimics the tax elements of...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Understanding TPC's Analysis of Governor Romney's Tax Plan

August 8, 2012 –
The Tax Policy Center’s latest research report went viral last week, drawing attention in the presidential campaign and sparking a constructive discussion of the practical...
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Brief

The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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