This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget and taxes, health, and the economy.
On the federal budget and taxes, Paul N. Van de Water and Richard Kogan detailed why a proposal from Senator Rob Portman for automatic...off the charts
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November 22, 2019
High-income taxpayers drive much of the “tax gap” — the gap between what taxpayers owe and what they voluntarily pay on time — finds a new paper from Professor Natasha Sarin and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, citing new...
November 22, 2019
Now that the Trump Administration has made public the more than 50,000 comments on its proposal to lower the federal poverty line...
November 18, 2019
Companion bills from Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden and House Majority Whip James Clyburn would impose significant, and welcome, new guardrails on investments in “opportunity zones,” or low-income areas designated for special tax breaks.
Created by the 2017 tax law, the opportunity zone (OZ) provision lets investors defer taxes on capital gains (profits from the sale...
November 18, 2019
Update, November 21: We updated this post to reflect CMS’ release of improper payment rates.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the 2019 Estimated Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) rate,...
November 15, 2019
This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget and taxes, health, immigration, state budgets and taxes, and food assistance.
On the federal budget and taxes, Chuck Marr, Samantha Jacoby, and Kathleen Bryant explained how a
...November 14, 2019
We’ve updated this post to reflect that Georgia’s Medicaid 1115 waiver would apply to residents with incomes at or below the poverty line.
Under two recent state proposals to waive federal Medicaid and Affordable Care Act rules, Georgia would spend at least as much to extend coverage to about 400,000 fewer people than if it adopted the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. And one waiver...
November 13, 2019
As Massachusetts lawmakers seek to raise revenue to make needed investments in roads, bridges, and public transit, they should abandon plans that rely solely on regressive gas tax and user fee increases in favor of those that also ensure that corporations pay their...
November 13, 2019
High-income, and especially high-wealth, tax filers enjoy many generous tax benefits that can dramatically lower their tax bills, our new report explains. Eliminating or limiting these preferences would make the tax code more progressive and help offset income...
November 13, 2019
Policymakers who seek to raise more revenue from the nation’s wealthiest individuals could, for instance, strengthen the estate tax, raise the top personal income tax rate, end preferential treatment of capital gains and dividends, or impose new taxes on very wealthy households, our...
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