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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

What You Need To Know About The Manchin-Schumer Climate and Tax Compromise

July 28, 2022 –
What You Need To Know About The Manchin-Schumer Compromise After more than a year of often-fraught negotiations, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) says he has agreed...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

TPC Experiments with Another Model to Estimate the Economic Effects of Tax Law Changes

July 21, 2021 –
The Tax Policy Center has traditionally measured the macroeconomic effects of tax changes based on historical experience and empirical estimates from the economics literature. But...
Business Taxes

The Fate Of Biden’s Corporate Tax Hikes May Rest On Who Voters Think Pay Them

June 17, 2021 –
As the partisan battle heats up over President Biden’s ambitious infrastructure plan—and the tax increases to pay for it—the fate of the package will largely...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Biden’s Tax On Large Capital Gains At Death Will Catch A Few With Annual Incomes Of Less than $400,000

May 27, 2021 –
President Biden’s campaign promise never to raise taxes on those making $400,000 or less annually will inevitably conflict with his proposal to tax unrealized capital...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

TPC Compares President Biden’s Tax Agenda With Candidate Biden’s: Where It Differs and Where It Tracks

May 21, 2021 –
When Joe Biden ran for president, his campaign platform included dozens of relatively specific tax proposals. They ranged from expanding refundable tax credits for low-...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How Biden’s No-Tax Pledge Could Sink His Climate Change Initiative

April 9, 2021 –
Nowhere is President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda more in conflict than in his triple aim of funding a major infrastructure initiative , attacking climate change...
Federal Budget and Economy

How Much Has the Pandemic Affected President-elect Biden’s Opportunity to Chart a New Course?

January 19, 2021 –
Largely as a consequence of the pandemic, trillions of dollars have been flowing out of the Treasury’s coffers. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

What Will a Narrow Democratic Congress Mean for Joe Biden’s Tax Agenda?

January 6, 2021 –
With improbable Democratic wins in both Georgia Senate runoff elections, President-elect Joe Biden has an opportunity to govern with a congressional majority—though one that will...
Individual Taxes

Key Questions Biden Will Need to Answer About His First-Time Down Payment Tax Credit

November 30, 2020 –
There are many benefits to a first-time homebuyer tax credit, such as the one proposed by President-elect Joe Biden. However, the transition from the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Treasury Pick Yellen Likes Carbon Taxes and More Pandemic Relief, But Not The TCJA

November 24, 2020 –
Janet Yellen, president-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Treasury Secretary, would come to the job with largely predictable views on tax policy for a mainstream, center-left economist.
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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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