TaxVox: Income tax (individual)

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Individual Taxes

It’s About Your Total Tax Liability, Not Your Refund

February 12, 2019 –
People, if you want to know whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was good for you or not, stop obsessing about the size...

How The Partial Government Shutdown Will Affect You This Tax Filing Season

January 18, 2019 –
Tax filing season is due to begin in 10 days. Will the IRS will be able to process returns as usual?

About Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Tax Rates

January 8, 2019 –
It sure didn’t take long. The 116 th Congress hadn’t been in session for a week when we were hit with the very first round...
State and Local Issues

States Enjoyed Another Stellar Quarter Of Revenue Growth; But The Longer-Term Fiscal Outlook Is Cloudy

December 18, 2018 –
States closed their fiscal 2018 books at the end of June on a positive note. But they shouldn’t bank on the good times lasting forever...
Individual Taxes

Who Is Middle Class Anyway?

December 10, 2018 –
Everyone, it seems, says they want to cut taxes for the middle class. President Trump promised such tax relief in the weeks before the election...
Individual Taxes

Congress Can And Should Demand President Trump’s Tax Returns

November 26, 2018 –
Incoming House Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) indicated that he will request President Trump’s tax returns soon after Democrats formally take control...
Individual Taxes

There Will Be No Middle-Class Tax Cut This Week. Or Next Month

October 25, 2018 –
Pundits are breathlessly speculating about what President Trump’s promise to cut taxes for the middle class by 10 percent could possibly mean. They are wasting...
Individual Taxes

High-Income Households Would Benefit Most From Repeal of the SALT Deduction Cap

September 24, 2018 –
Repealing the SALT Deduction Cap Would Largely Benefit High-Income Households, TPC Finds Only about 9 percent of households would benefit from repeal of the Tax...
Individual Taxes

Extending The TCJA Would Cut Revenue By $3.8 Trillion Through 2038, Mostly Benefit The Well-Off

September 12, 2018 –
The House Republican plan to make permanent the individual income and estate tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) would add almost...
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Business Taxes

Treasury’s New Pass-Through Rules Double Down On The Deduction’s Regressivity

August 14, 2018 –
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) contains a special 20-percent individual income tax deduction for owners of pass-through businesses that was always going to...