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Congress Could End Tax Breaks for Gifts to Non-Profits with Political Agendas

August 29, 2022 –
The New York Times reported that Chicago businessman Barre Seid donated his entire business, tax free, to the Marble Freedom Trust, a tax-exempt advocacy organization...
Individual Taxes

Biden’s New Taxes for Billionaires: One Is Hard, One Is Easy

March 31, 2022 –
This week, President Biden proposed two new taxes on the very rich. A minimum income tax that Biden calls a billionaire tax but would in...
Individual Taxes

A Carbon Tax is Not the Solution to Global Climate Change

October 5, 2021 –
The definition of insanity, according to a famous quotation (often mis-attributed to Albert Einstein) is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Clean Energy Tax Credits Can’t Do the Work of a Carbon Tax

October 5, 2021 –
As another season of record-breaking heat, wildfires, and hurricanes unfolds, Congress is debating how to address climate change and fund green infrastructure in its $3.5...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Biden Would Raise Taxes Substantially for High Income Households and Corporations, Cut Taxes for Families with Children, According to A New TPC Analysis

June 9, 2021 –
Nearly all of President Biden’s proposed tax increases would be borne by the highest income 1 percent of households--those making about $800,000 or more—according to...
State and Local Issues

Critics Argue The Property Tax Is Unfair. Do They Have A Point?

March 9, 2020 –
Last month, an Idaho lawmaker called the property tax “ inherently evil ” and suggested the state repeal it and replace the foregone revenue with...

What Do Federal Taxes Have To Do With Your Public Transit?

March 2, 2020 –
At a recent forum on infrastructure, Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer discussed their proposals to bolster spending on...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

“Don’t Tax Me, Don’t Tax Thee, Tax That Person Who’s Richer Than… We.”

February 5, 2020 –
Who counts as rich?

Balancing Hate, The First Amendment, And Tax-Exempt Status

September 25, 2019 –
Is hate speech constitutionally protected? Do groups that express hate in their words and deeds deserve tax-exempt status? Is the IRS equipped to judge what...

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

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

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