Tax Policy Center

Tax Policy Center

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Taxes Don’t Always Drive the Economy--Sometimes the Economy Drives Taxes

Don’t tell my Tax Policy Center colleagues I said this, but it isn’t always about taxes. If you listened to the presidential campaign this week,...
July 12, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Trimming Tax Breaks to Cut Rates is a Lot Harder Than It Looks

It won’t be impossible for pay for substantial individual tax rate reductions by cutting tax expenditures. But it will be very, very hard. The challenges...
July 10, 2012Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Listen Closely When Romney Talks About Taxes

When Mitt Romney talks about his plan for tax reform, he is very careful to say two things: He wants to cut tax rates, and...
June 19, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Taxing the London Whale

Now that a once-obscure J.P. Morgan Chase derivatives trader named Bruno Iksil has become infamous as the London Whale, I suppose it is time to...
May 15, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Is the U.S. Tax System Fair?

These days, some people want to impose a new Buffett tax on millionaires while others are outraged that low income people pay no income taxes...
May 3, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

The very unRepublican Small Business Tax Cut

My Tax Policy Center colleague Eric Toder and I are mystified by how unRepublican the House GOP’s Small Business Tax Cut Act really is. Sure,...
April 24, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Letting the Bush/Obama Tax Cuts Expire Would Raise Average Taxes by $3,000

It has sometimes been said, even by me, that the easiest way for Congress and the White House to fix the deficit is to do…...
April 19, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Raising Taxes on the Rich

This afternoon, I moderated an interesting Tax Policy Center panel on taxing the rich. With the Senate about to debate a Buffett tax on millionaires,...
April 12, 2012Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Will the 2010 Health Law Cut the Deficit or Add to It?

In a new study , Chuck Blahous, who is a public trustee for Medicare and Social Security, concludes that the 2010 health law will add...
April 10, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

There is No Health Care Tax on Most Home Sales. Really.

It is the unfounded rumor that never dies: You will have to pay a 3.8 percent federal health care tax on the sale of your...
April 2, 2012Howard Gleckman