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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Obama Proposes Nothing Radical on Taxes. Too Bad.

July 9, 2012 –
President Obama today urged Congress to extend the 2001/2003 tax cuts for households making $250,000 or less and insisted lawmakers let those provisions expire for...
Individual Taxes

Obamacare’s Uninsured Tax is a Mouse

July 3, 2012 –
The Affordable Care Act’s tax on those who choose not to buy health insurance was the linchpin of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the...
Individual Taxes

Reduce Tax Rates on Low-Income Families by Extending Tax Phase-Outs

June 29, 2012 –
An ominous announcement for a House Ways & Means Committee joint hearing on “how welfare and tax benefits can discourage work” seemed a set-up to...
Federal Budget and Economy

Bowles-Simpson Budget Reform and Ecstatic Memory

June 26, 2012 –
Have you noticed that as the details of the tough budget reform proposed by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles fade into memory, more politicians are...
Individual Taxes

A New Look at an Old Consumption Tax

June 21, 2012 –
Twenty-five years ago, Princeton economist David Bradford designed what he called the X Tax . The idea--a progressive consumption tax--generated lots of discussion among tax...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Listen Closely When Romney Talks About Taxes

June 19, 2012 –
When Mitt Romney talks about his plan for tax reform, he is very careful to say two things: He wants to cut tax rates, and...
Federal Budget and Economy

Romney and Obama: Big Speeches, Little Vision

June 14, 2012 –
Yesterday, Mitt Romney laid out what his campaign said was his vision for health reform . Today, he followed that up with a talk on...
Individual Taxes

The Wide Tax Reform Gulf Between Baucus and Camp

June 12, 2012 –
Yesterday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who rarely gives public speeches, laid out his agenda for tax reform. Just for fun, I compared...
Federal Budget and Economy

The “Tax Expirers”

June 8, 2012 –
Today I had the chance to testify before the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee about a perennial challenge, the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Should We Delay the Tax Cut Debate Until Early 2013?

June 7, 2012 –
Over the past week or so, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Glenn Hubbard have all made the same suggestion: Congress should extend all of the...
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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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