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Individual Taxes

Dear Senators Crapo And Grassley: Synthetic Tax Data Protect Taxpayer Privacy

October 12, 2021 –
Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) recently asked for an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s research activities, including its use of contractors...
Business Taxes

TPC Answers Two Questions About Its Analysis of the House Ways & Means Committee’s Tax Bill

September 29, 2021 –
After the Tax Policy Center published its new analysis of the House Ways & Means Committee’s budget reconciliation tax plan , commentators asked two questions:...
Individual Taxes

Effective Income Tax Rates Have Fallen for The Top One Percent Since World War II

September 15, 2021 –
While average effective tax rates barely changed in the US from 1945 to 2015, the average tax rates of high-income households fell sharply—from about 50...
Individual Taxes

The COVID-19 Pandemic Drove A Huge, But Temporary, Increase in Households That Did Not Pay Federal Income Tax

August 18, 2021 –
The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy response to it led to an extraordinary increase in the number of American households that owed no federal individual income tax in 2020. The Tax Policy Center estimates that last year more than 107 million households, or nearly 61 percent, owed no income tax or even received tax credits from the government.
Individual Taxes

Want To Know Why A Wealth Tax Won’t Work? Remember The Time Michael Jackson’s Estate Landed in Tax Court

July 12, 2021 –
If you want to know why a wealth tax would be an administrative nightmare, take a look at the dispute over the estate of pop...
State and Local Issues

State Pass-Through Entity Taxes Let Some Residents Avoid the SALT Cap at No Cost to The States

June 24, 2021 –
This week, Colorado became the 14 th state to either require or allow some pass-through businesses such as partnerships to pay state income taxes at...
Individual Taxes

Biden’s Tax Plan May Make Congress Come to Grips With The Question: What Is Income?

May 26, 2021 –
Tax bills almost always force Congress to think about how to define income, but President Biden’s campaign promise to never raise taxes for those making...

Should Government Use Tax Incentives to Encourage People to Get The COVID-19 Vaccine?

May 5, 2021 –
Tax incentives can encourage action that supports the public good—like lifting children out of poverty, giving to charity, pursuing higher education, or using alternatives to fossil fuels. How about helping end a global pandemic?
Individual Taxes

SALT Cap Repeal Would Overwhelmingly Benefit High Income Households

April 23, 2021 –
Households making $1 million or more a year would receive half the benefit of repealing the $10,000 federal cap on the state and local tax...

President Biden’s No Tax Hike Pledge Problem

March 24, 2021 –
Nobody making under 400,000 bucks would have their taxes raised. Period. Bingo. – Joe Biden, May 22, 2020 Enacting good tax policy is hard under...
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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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