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Individual Taxes

The Biggest Tax Problem Facing Households and the IRS is…The Tax Code

January 6, 2011 –
Each year for the past decade, Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate at the Internal Revenue Service, has issued a report to Congress on the...
Individual Taxes

Tax Reform Won’t Happen in 2011 (or 2012)

December 28, 2010 –
Much as I hate to write these words, tax reform isn’t going to happen in the coming year, or even in the year after that...
Individual Taxes

The Tax Vox 2010 Lump of Coal Award, Job-Killing Edition

December 23, 2010 –
It's time for Tax Vox's fourth annual Lump of Coal Award, given to 2010's worst moments in fiscal policy. Bad law, outrageous rhetoric, and months...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How the Tax Deal Helps Manhattan Real Estate Developers In the Name of 9/11

December 21, 2010 –
Why is Congress continuing to subsidize lower Manhattan real estate developers nearly a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center? While...
Federal Budget and Economy

Johnny Depp and the New Tax Law

December 17, 2010 –
When the President signs the big tax deal later today, will he be cutting income taxes for most families or sparing them a tax hike?...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Obama-GOP Tax Deal May Be Bipartisan, But It Isn't Stimulus and It Isn't Smart

December 16, 2010 –
A modest thought experiment: Here is a check for $858 billion. Your job is to boost short-term economic growth. What would you do with the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The Obama-GOP Deal: A Tax Hike for the Working Poor

December 8, 2010 –
Ever since the 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama has argued passionately for extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all but the richest 2 percent of...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Obama-GOP Tax Deal: Winners and Losers

December 7, 2010 –
On the defensive for cutting a $700 billion tax deal with Republicans, President Obama argued that the agreement is important because it would benefit middle-class...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Obama and the Republicans Reach an Odious Tax Deal

December 7, 2010 –
The tax deal reached by President Obama and congressional Republicans (but not Hill Democrats) includes a bit of good, some bad, and some really ugly...
Individual Taxes

The Lame-Duck Congress: So Many Tax Issues, So Little Time

December 6, 2010 –
As usual in December, personal finance columns are filled with end-of-year tax advice—all those things you should do before New Year’s to cut your tax...
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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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