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Why Individual Tax Revenues Will Grow Even If Congress Doesn’t Raise Taxes
The other day, I wrote about new Congressional Budget Office estimates that individual income tax revenues are likely to grow significantly over the next decade. A new paper by my Tax Policy Center...
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Five Tax Stories To Watch in What Will Be a Wild Fall in Congress and on the...
Congress is back. Fiscal deadlines loom. Presidential candidates have tax plans to propose. It isn’t clear how much lawmakers will accomplish in the next four months, but it will be a busy and...
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Jeb Bush’s Tax Plan: High Marks for Transparency But Key Questions Remain
At first glance, GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush’s tax reform plan is a standard lower-the-rates, broaden-the-base overhaul of the revenue code. But a closer look shows a something-for-everyone stew...
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The TaxVox Lump of Coal Awards for the Ten Worst Tax Ideas of 2015
It is time for TaxVox’s annual Lump of Coal awards for the worst tax ideas (or most depressing tax stories) of 2015. As always, choosing the Top 10 was not easy, but here they are:10. The Michigan...
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What Can Congress and President Obama Accomplish in 2016?
Can Congress and President Obama, who have battled over policy for seven years, reach consensus over key tax and other issues in the months leading up to the 2016 election? To ask the question is...
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If Banning Negligent Low-Income Households From Taking Tax Credits Is Such a...
Congress has banned more low-income families who file erroneous tax returns from receiving refundable credits. If lawmakers think this is such a terrific idea, why stop at low-income households? For...
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Clinton and Sanders Face Off Over Who Should Pay for New Social Programs
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both want to create ambitious new government programs to help middle-income families with medical and education costs and family leave. Both say they’d pay for those...
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Bernie Sanders Is Proposing Really Big Tax Increases
It is hard to grasp the enormity of the tax increases Bernie Sanders is proposing, how far out-of-step he is with recent economic history in the U.S., and what a stunning contrast he presents with...
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The White House Quietly Rolls Out Its Last Tax and Budget Plan
If the White House wanted to attract attention to its final budget, it could not have picked a worse day to make it public. With official Washington obsessed with today’s New Hampshire primary, the...
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Sanders’s Domestic Program Would Help Most Households, But Add More Than $18...
Sanders’s Domestic Program Would Help Most Households, But Add More Than $18 Trillion to the Debt.Most American families would receive new government benefits that would exceed their higher taxes under...
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