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Business Taxes

Joe Manchin Just Made A Great Argument In Support of A Carbon Tax

May 3, 2022 –
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin set off environmentalists last week when he said tax credits to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicle (EV) tax credits...
State and Local Issues

Gaming The SALT Cap May Be Congress’s Worst Tax Idea Of The Year

October 27, 2021 –
Ever since Congress capped the state and local tax (SALT) deduction in 2017, a small group of Blue State Democrats has demanded the cap’s repeal...
Federal Budget and Economy

Tax Expenditures Remain A Significant Share of The Economy

April 20, 2021 –
Despite years of widespread discussion among lawmakers about the need to broaden the federal income tax base, tax expenditures have remained remarkably stable as a...
Individual Taxes

How Would Paydown Affect The Reform Of Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?

July 21, 2020 –
Reforming the mortgage interest deduction (MID) could raise federal tax revenue and make the tax system more progressive. But some taxpayers, especially those with high...
Individual Taxes

Pelosi’s Infrastructure Bill Takes The Wrong Road On Tax Subsidies

June 26, 2020 –
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has rolled up many different committee bills into a single, massive 2,300-page, $1.5 trillion infrastructure package that the Democratic-controlled House likely...
Individual Taxes

Are We Headed For A New Era of Income Tax Deduction Creep?

May 28, 2020 –
Congress can’t seem to end its love affair with tax deductions. For a brief period starting with then-House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp’s...
Tax Expenditures Feature

TPC Launches A New Resource For Understanding Tax Expenditures

January 28, 2020 –
Would you be surprised to learn that in addition to the $1.3 trillion the federal government will spend on Medicare, Medicaid , and related health...
State and Local Issues

States Adopt Some Federal Tax Expenditures And Add Others

January 24, 2020 –
In fiscal year 2020, Georgia will spend nearly $500 million in film and television tax credits in return for the promise of new jobs and...

The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Reduced Tax Expenditures But By Much Less Than The 1986 Tax Reform Act

December 10, 2019 –
For years, tax reformers have advocated reducing marginal tax rates, broadening the tax base, and eliminating provisions that provide special benefits to select forms of...

What The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Means For Tax Expenditures

June 5, 2019 –
In a new paper , my former Tax Policy Center colleague Daniel Berger and I calculate that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)...

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Why are tax expenditures controversial?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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Why are tax expenditures controversial?

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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 tax expenditures and how are they structured?

February 12, 2016 by tpcwebsite

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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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What are the largest tax expenditures?

December 20, 2015 by tpcwebsite

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What are the largest tax expenditures?

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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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