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TPC Is Improving Its Modeling Of Five Tax Expenditures

December 18, 2018 –
In a new initiative, the Tax Policy Center is improving its modeling of five key tax expenditures: the tax treatment of pass-through entities, charitable giving,...

How Recent Tax Reform Sounds a Clarion Call for Real Reform of Homeownership Policy

May 9, 2018 –
By roughly doubling the standard deduction and limiting the deduction from federal taxable income of state and local taxes (SALT), the Tax Cut and Jobs...

Sorry, Pennsylvania Voters, Your Property Tax Isn’t Going Anywhere

November 17, 2017 –
On Election Day, 54 percent of Pennsylvania voters backed a convoluted ballot initiative aimed at ending homeowner’s property taxes. Sounds great, right? Well, unfortunately for...

Gutting the Mortgage Interest Deduction

November 6, 2017 –
The new bill introduced by the House Ways and Means Committee would significantly downsize the mortgage interest deduction. Although this is sure to cause controversy,...
Individual Taxes

How a mortgage tax credit would affect borrowers of different incomes in different states

December 7, 2016 –
This post is part of the Tax Policy Center’s new series, Tax Line , which digs into the data behind the day’s most pressing tax...
Individual Taxes

Who benefits from tax subsidies for home ownership?

September 14, 2016 –
For decades, Congress has generally used tax subsidies and direct spending to encourage home ownership . For example, the tax code allows itemizers to deduct...
Federal Budget and Economy

Rethinking Homeownership Subsidies

January 6, 2014 –
Tax expenditures for homeownership, such as deductions for mortgage interest and property taxes and the partial exclusion for capital gains on the sale of a...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

What Changes in the Mortgage Deduction Would Mean for Home Prices

June 5, 2013 –
Tax preferences for housing are under fire, with mounting evidence that these preferences are inefficient , unequal , and too expensive to warrant a place...
Federal Budget and Economy

Is This a Good Time to Reform the Mortgage Interest Deduction?

March 28, 2013 –
Housing industry lobbyists often make the case that, whatever you think of the mortgage interest deduction, now would be a terrible time to eliminate or...
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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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