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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Trump’s $916 million of NOLs: The Art of the Dodge?

November 1, 2016 –
Today, The New York Times dissected the $916 million of Net Operating Losses (NOLs) that Donald Trump claimed on his 1995 tax return, which The...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

New tax calculator shows how taxes would change under Clinton & Trump tax plans

October 31, 2016 –
Just in time for the presidential election, the Tax Policy Center’s Election Tax Calculator debuts today. We designed it to help taxpayers, analysts, and the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

The confusing debate over child tax credits and exemptions

October 28, 2016 –
In this year’s presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s proposal to double the child tax credit and Donald Trump’s plan replace the dependent exemption with a higher...
Individual Taxes

Is It Time To Rethink The Scale and Progressivity of the Tax System?

October 25, 2016 –
Is the US tax code both too small and too progressive? That’s the argument of Alan Viard and Sita Nataraj Slavov of the American Enterprise...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Clinton would increase the CTC for very low-income workers and young children

October 24, 2016 –
Hillary Clinton has proposed two important changes to the child tax credit (CTC). The first would phase in the credit starting with the first dollar...
Individual Taxes

How the EITC favors families with children

October 21, 2016 –
This post is part of the Tax Policy Center’s new series, Tax Line , which digs into the data behind the day’s most pressing tax...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

How would candidates’ spending plans affect our GDP projections?

October 21, 2016 –
The Tax Policy Center, with the help of the Penn-Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), found that in the short-run Hillary Clinton’s tax increases would slow the...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Do deficits matter? Trump says no, Clinton says yes (sort of)

October 20, 2016 –
The fiscal policy debate in the 2016 presidential election (yes, Virginia, there is a policy debate, even if you can’t hear it through the noise)...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Dynamic scoring modestly changes the revenue effects of the Clinton and Trump tax plans

October 19, 2016 –
Incorporating the macroeconomic effects of the tax plans of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has little effect on their revenue implications, according to updated analyses...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms

Trump Adviser Comments on Taxes and Trade Turn Economic Theory On Its Head

October 14, 2016 –
Yesterday’s presentation by Donald Trump's economic adviser, Peter Navarro, at the Tax Policy Center’s discussion of the presidential candidate tax plans reminded me of a...