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Individual Taxes

Are State Tax-Credit Scholarships The Best Way to Support School Choice?

June 2, 2021 –
Should states offer businesses tax credits to accelerate a family's shift to private school?
State and Local Issues

Balancing School Budgets And Tax Hikes In The Middle Of A Pandemic

June 3, 2020 –
After nearly three months under a stay-at-home order, my daughter may have had it with my house rules. She sent me a TikTok video of...

Congress Must Do More To Help States And Localities Respond To COVID-19

March 30, 2020 –
The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed into law last week will allocate roughly $200 billion in fiscal relief to...
Individual Taxes

Trump’s Private Education Tax Credit Is Wrong-Headed And Badly Designed

February 11, 2020 –
I often see tax proposals that are well-intentioned but poorly designed. I sometimes see ideas that are well designed but wrong-headed. President Trump's private education tax credit is both...
Individual Taxes

Taxing The Scholarships Of College Athletes Is A Personal Foul

November 13, 2019 –
Late last month, the NCAA said college athletes could get paid for the commercial use of their likenesses or names, though it appeared to limit...
Individual Taxes

The Section 529 Savings Plan Is A Sweet Deal. Too Sweet.

June 5, 2019 –
As welcome as the 529 benefits are, we don’t need them, and we should not have them.
Individual Taxes

Clinton Would Tinker With, Not Rewrite, the Tax Code

August 11, 2015 –
While many Republican presidential candidates are promoting their versions of broad-based tax reform, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton so far...
Individual Taxes

What We Hear When We Talk About Taxes... Musings of a Tax Hound

March 4, 2015 –
It’s been just over a year since I started posting TPC’s Daily Deduction. It’s high time I let you in on a little secret: Whenever...
Individual Taxes

What if We Funded Public Education Like Affordable Care Act Health Insurance?

February 27, 2015 –
The Tax Policy Center’s recent panel discussion on the Affordable Care Act’s tax-based system of subsidies and penalties highlighted the convoluted...
Individual Taxes

Obama Would Improve Tax Subsidies for Higher Education

January 25, 2015 –
President Obama will feature higher education prominently in next week’s budget—a choice that makes sense, given that educational attainment is the...
Brief

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

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

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