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T07-0046 - Proposed Standard Deduction for Health Insurance, Distribution of Income Tax Change by Cash Income Class, 2009

February 5, 2007
Individual Taxes

T07-0047 - Proposed Standard Deduction for Health Insurance, Distribution of Income Tax Change by Cash Income Percentile, 2009

February 5, 2007
Individual Taxes

T07-0048 - Proposed Standard Deduction for Health Insurance, Distribution of Federal Tax Change by Cash Income Class, 2017

February 5, 2007

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Why are tax expenditures controversial?

December 20, 2015 by tpc-admin

Q.

Why are tax expenditures controversial?

A.

To some, tax expenditures are spending items that do not belong in the tax code. To others, they are merely a way of reducing taxes, and repealing them would amount to a tax increase.

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What are the largest tax expenditures?

December 20, 2015 by tpc-admin

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What are the largest tax expenditures?

A.

Tax expenditures make up a substantial part of the federal budget. Some of them are larger than the entire budgets of the programs or departments that spend money for the same or related purposes. For example, the value of the tax breaks for homeownership, although reduced by the 2017 tax act, still exceeds total spending by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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What are tax expenditures and how are they structured?

February 12, 2016 by tpc-admin

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What are tax expenditures and how are they structured?

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Tax expenditures are special provisions of the tax code such as exclusions, deductions, deferrals, credits, and tax rates that benefit specific activities or groups of taxpayers.

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