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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Kamala Harris Favored Taxes To Raise Revenue and Change Policy

If Vice President Kamala Harris's past record is any indication, a President Harris would be a strong proponent for using the tax code to achieve her policy goals.
August 2, 2024Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Those Making $450,000 And Up Would Get Nearly Half The Benefit Of Extending the TCJA

Households making about $450,000 or more would receive more than 45 percent of the benefits of extending key provisions of 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs...
July 8, 2024Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

CBO’s Latest Budget Estimates May Make Extending The TCJA More Complicated

The Congressional Budget Office’s latest fiscal update is filled with terrifying numbers: The projected deficit for this fiscal year will hit 7 percent of Gross...
June 24, 2024Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Would Biden Really Scrap The TCJA? Would That Raise Everyone’s Taxes?

President Biden set off a kerfuffle when he posted on “X,” formerly Twitter, “Donald Trump was very proud of his $2 trillion tax cut that...
May 1, 2024Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Remembering Daniel Kahneman, The Psychologist Who Upended Economics

Perhaps the two most influential economics thinkers of the past half-century were not economists at all. Psychologists Amos Tversky, who died young in 1996, and...
April 10, 2024Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Watch Congress Spend And Cut Taxes More, Despite Its Deficit Hang-Wringing

Want to know why the budget deficit is enormous and growing? One reason is that when one political party in Congress proposes new tax cuts...
December 4, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Buckle Up. 2025 Promises To Be An Historic Year In Tax And Budget Policy

Now that Congress has passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023 , it isn’t too soon to start thinking about the mess lawmakers have...
June 7, 2023Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Who Would Benefit From Restoring The Full CTC, EITC, and The TCJA’s Business Tax Breaks?

This blog has been revised, reflecting TPC’s recalculated analysis of proposals to reduce business taxes that are under discussion in Congress. TPC’s initial analysis over-estimated...
December 7, 2022Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

What Will The Mid-Term Election Mean For Tax Policy?

With Democrats retaining narrow control of the Senate and Republicans on the cusp of winning the barest of majorities in the House, it will be...
November 16, 2022Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox

The Booming Economy, Not The 2017 Tax Act, Is Fueling Corporate Tax Receipts

Corporate tax revenues boomed in 2021 and some supporters of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act argue that the big tax reductions in the...
June 3, 2022William G. GaleKyle PomerleauSteven M. Rosenthal