Tax Day Roundup, 2014

Here are the analyses and blog posts we’ve issued in the past week on tax issues.  We will update this post as we publish new analyses.

Analysis: Lone Group Taxed Into Poverty Should Receive a Larger EITC
Related blog post: Increase the EITC to Help Lift “Childless Workers” Out of Poverty

Analysis: Reducing Overpayments in the Earned Income Tax Credit
Related blog posts:

• Reducing EITC Errors
• GAO: Give IRS Needed Authority to Oversee All Tax Preparers
• Senate Witness Misrepresents IRS Certification and Training for Tax Preparers

Analysis: Tax Foundation Figures Do Not Represent Typical Households’ Tax Burdens
Related blog post: “Tax Freedom Day” Analysis Can Give Misleading Impression of Tax Burdens

Updated Analysis: Federal Income Taxes on Middle-Income Families Remain Near Historic Lows

Updated Analysis: Earned Income Tax Credit Promotes Work, Encourages Children’s Success at School, Research Finds 

Blog Post: The Top 10 (Well, 11) Federal Tax Charts

Blog Post: Top 5 (Okay, 6) State Tax Charts

Blog Post: 3 Million Reasons to Thank Tax-Season Volunteers

Updated Policy Basics:

• Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?

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• Where Do Federal Tax Revenues Come From?
• Federal Payroll Taxes
• Federal Tax Expenditures
• Where Do Our State Tax Dollars Go?

(Also see our Policy Basics on The Earned Income Tax Credit, The Child Tax Credit, Tax Exemptions, Deductions, and Credits, Marginal and Average Tax Rates, and The Estate Tax.)