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Federal Budget and Economy

Letting the Bush/Obama Tax Cuts Expire Would Raise Average Taxes by $3,000

April 19, 2012 –
It has sometimes been said, even by me, that the easiest way for Congress and the White House to fix the deficit is to do…...
Individual Taxes

Is Buffett Rule a First Step Towards Tax Reform?

April 18, 2012 –
When the president first announced his Buffett Rule–that millionaires should pay at least 30 percent of their income in tax–in the State of the Union...
Individual Taxes

Raising Taxes on the Rich

April 12, 2012 –
This afternoon, I moderated an interesting Tax Policy Center panel on taxing the rich. With the Senate about to debate a Buffett tax on millionaires,...
Individual Taxes

How Big Are Tax Preferences?

April 9, 2012 –
The tax code is chock full of credits, deductions, deferrals, exclusions, exemptions, and preferential rates. Taken together, such tax preferences will total almost $1.3 trillion...
Federal Budget and Economy

Ryan Would Shift the Fiscal Burden to Low and Middle-Income Households

March 27, 2012 –
The budget proposal House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released last week is, essentially, an effort to have low- and middle-class households bear the...
Federal Budget and Economy

Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan: More Big Tax Cuts for the Rich

March 23, 2012 –
No surprise here, but the tax cuts in Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget plan would result in huge benefits for high-income people and very modest—or no—...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Budget Message Paul Ryan Really Sent

March 22, 2012 –
Paul Ryan may not have intended it, but his 2013 budget is the strongest argument I’ve seen for why any serious fiscal plan must include...
Federal Budget and Economy

Will Obama’s 2013 Budget Raise or Lower Taxes? Yes.

March 21, 2012 –
Republicans like to say President Obama is a chronic, unrepentant tax-raiser. Obama himself used to say he was a tax-cutter but now touts himself as...
Federal Budget and Economy

Ryan's Mystery Meat Budget

March 20, 2012 –
I am weary of mystery meat. The latest serving was dished out today by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), who released a fiscal...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Will Romney Pay for His Tax Cuts?

March 8, 2012 –
Mitt Romney has proposed massive new tax cuts and promised to balance the federal budget. How will he achieve these seemingly contradictory goals? For now,...
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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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