Other Issues
Results per page: 50 | 100
Results by year: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
-
Taxing High-Sugar Soft Drinks Could Help Pay For Health Care Reform
May 27, 2009
By establishing a tax on high-sugar soft drinks, Congress could help finance health care reform that extends health insurance to all Americans and slows the growth of health care costs, while also improving Americans’ health. This paper, which is part of a series of papers on proposals to help pay for health … -
Policy Basics: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?
Updated April 13, 2009
The federal government collects taxes in order to finance various public services. As policymakers weigh key decisions about revenues and expenditures, it is instructive to examine the recent usage of federal tax dollars. In fiscal year 2008, the federal … -
Proposal to Cap Deductions for High-Income Households Would Reduce Charitable Contributions by Only 1.9 Percent
Revised March 31, 2009
The President’s 2010 budget proposes to limit the tax subsidy for deductible expenses of the most affluent Americans and to use the additional revenue to help finance national health reform, including universal coverage. This proposal has been attacked on the grounds that it would lead to substantial reductions in charitable contributions and hit … -
Economic Recovery Package Would Give 3.8 Million Low- and Moderate-Income Students — Thousands in Every State —Access to Higher-Education Tax Credit
Revised February 26, 2009
The “Hope Credit,” which provides a tax subsidy for college tuition costs, was established in 1997. Its goal, in part, was to enable students who could not otherwise afford to attend college to do so. Yet until now, 3.8 million prospective college students — more than a fifth of all high-school-age children nationwide … -
House and Senate Recovery Packages Would Improve Higher-Education Tax Credits
Revised February 2, 2009
The economic recovery package passed by the House last week[1] contains a measure that both would extend the Hope tax credit to nearly 4 million low-income students and make the credit more valuable to millions of middle-income students. The Senate Finance Committee has included a similar proposal in its economic recovery package. The House measure would increase the credit’s maximum … -
Senate Housing Legislation Highly Disappointing: Less Than One-Fourth of Cost of Senate Bill Goes for Provisions That Will Actually Help Address the Foreclosure Crisis
Revised May 12, 2008
On April 10, the Senate passed legislation that its supporters say will help struggling families hold on to their homes and assist the communities hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis. Measures that would help achieve these goals, however, account for less than one-fourth of the bill’s cost. The remainder of the cost comes … -
If You're Going to Do Social Policy Through the Tax Code, Do it Right
January 24, 2007
The most contentious issues in tax policy are not going to be settled in the next two years. President Bush and the Democratic Congress are unlikely to come to a sustainable, long-term agreement on the level of revenue — debates on extending the tax cuts or letting some of them expire are likely a matter for the next president and the next Congress. … -
Closing the Tax Gap
April 10, 2006
The Internal Revenue Service recently released updated estimates showing that the tax gap – which it describes as “the difference between what taxpayers should have paid and what they actually paid on a timely basis” — was $345 billion in Tax Year 2001. (This does not include unpaid taxes on illegal activities.)[1] This represents a non-compliance rate of 16.3 … -
Tax Reform and Poverty
April 10, 2006
The tax system has a pervasive impact on poverty, both directly through its role in the distribution of society’s resources and indirectly through its effects on the incentives for economic decisions like working and saving. The two most important facets of the tax system for low-income families are payroll taxes and the Earned Income Tax Credit … -
The Tax Reform Panel’s Costly Proposal
November 30, 2005
.style1 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; } .style2 { font-size: xx-small; } .style3 { font-weight: bold; background-color: #003768; } .style4 { color: #FFFFFF; } .style5 { background-color: #C0C0C0; } .style6 { border-width: 1px; background-color: #003768; } .style7 { border-style: solid; border-width: … -
Fairness Issues: Testimony before the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform
Revised March 23, 2005
This testimony can be viewed as a PowerPoint or PDF file.
