Tax Policy - More Policy Analyses and Research
2008
CBPP: Claim that Congressional Budget Plans Call for "Largest Tax Increase in History" is Inaccurate (3/7/08) CBPP: The Skewed Benefits of the Tax Cuts (2/4/08)
2007
EPI: Bush Tax Changes Wreck Budget (8/29/07) CHN: Tax Credits that Can Lift Millions More Out of Poverty: Facts About the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit (September 2007) NCLR: Making Your Taxes Work for You (4/17/07) CBPP: Alternative Approaches to AMT Reform: Criteria for Assessment (4/2/07) CTJ: Recently Passed Budget Resolutions Do Not Increase Taxes Despite Accusations of "Biggest Tax Increase in History" (4/2/07) CBPP: State Earned Income TAx Credits and the "Overpaymetns" Issue (3/28/07) CBPP: Myths and Realities About the Alternative Minimum Tax (2/14/07) CTJ: Fewer and Fewer Americans Owed Estate Tax in 2005: State-by-State Data (1/10/07)Testimony by Jared Bernstein, EPI: Tax Incentives for Businesses in Response to Minimum Wage Increase (1/10/07)CBPP: Revenue Losses from Repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax are Staggering (01/09/07)
2006
CTJ: A Progressive Solution to the AMT Problem (December 2006) The Urban Institute: Analyzing Recent State Tax Policy Choices Affecting Low-Income Working Families: The Recession and Beyond (11/15/06) Economist and CHN Treasurer Jared Bernstein: The Day the System Worked (8/4/06) CTJ: The Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Through 2006 - the Latest CTJ Data (6/22/06) CBPP: The High Cost of Estate Tax Repeal (6/5/06) CBPP: Reconciliation Tax Cuts Would Average $42,000 for Millionaires But Only $20 for Middle-Income Families (5/4/06) CBPP: Joint Tax Committee Shows Budget Gimmick Propsed To Evade Senate Budget Rules Would Increase Long-Term Deficits (4/25/06) Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy: Spending Millions to Save Billions: The Campaign of the Super Wealthy to Kill the Estate Tax (April, 2006) NCLR: Estate Tax Repeal Would Harm Latinos (4/21/06) NWLC: More Costly Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Are Moving Under the Radar in the Pension Bill (3/16/06) CBPP: Claim That Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves Is Too Good to be True (3/8/06) EPI: Bush's Tax and Budget Policies Fail to Promote Economic Growth (2/17/06) CBPP: Extending Expiring Tax Breaks and AMT Relief Would Cost $3.3 Trillion Through 2016 (2/6/06) CBPP: President's Health Care Tax Cuts Likely to Weaken Existing Insurance and Primarily Help Well-Off (1/31/06) CBPP: High Income Households Benefit Most from Capital Gains and Dividend Rate Cuts (1/30/06) UFE: No Correlation Between Bush Tax Cuts and Job Creation (1/11/06) CBPP: Nearly $100 Billion in Tax Cuts on the Table (1/10/06) CBPP: Earned Income Credit and Child Tax Credit Outreach Kit (January 2006)
2005
CBPP: Two Tax Cuts Benefitting Millionaires Take Effect January 2006 (12/28/05) CTJ: New CBO Report Shows Bleak Fiscal Forcast (12/22/05) CTJ: Senate and House Tax Reconciliation Bills Compared (12/6/05) CBPP: Tax Reform Panel's Costly Proposal (11/30/05) CAP: Misplaced Priorities - Cutting Services to Finance Tax Breaks (11/29/05) CTJ: Extending Capital Gains and Dividend Loopholes Mostly Benefit Wealthiest 1% (11/21/05) CBPP: Tax Packages from Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees Are Flawed (11/17/05) CBPP: High Income Filers Overwhelmingly Benefit from Capital Gains Rate Cut - by State (11/7/05) FTFA: Flawed Assumptions Mar President's Tax Advisory Panel Report (11/1/05) EPI: The Boom That Wasn't: The Economy Has Little to Show for $860 Billion in Tax Cuts (10/24/05) CBPP: New IRS Data Show Income Inequality is Again on the Rise (10/17/05) CBPP: Calls to Offset Hurricane Spending Miss the Point (10/6/05) United for Fair Economy: Poll Says Maine Voters Oppose Eliminating Inheritance Tax (9/2/05) USAction Ed Fund: Setting the Right Priorities - Why We Can't Afford Estate Tax Repeal (8/31/05) Urban Institute: Tax Credits to Help Low-Income Families Pay for Child Care (8/15/05) OMB Watch: Estate Tax Talking Points (8/9/05) Americans for Fair Estate Tax: Sign-On Letter to Senate Opposing Repeal of Estate Tax (8/4/05) CBPP: Kyl Estate Tax Proposal Would Lose Substantial Revenue (7/27/05) CBPP: What Does the Safety Net Accomplish? (7/19/05) CTJ: The Bush Tax Cuts So Far (7/18/05) CBPP: The Earned Income Tax Credit: Boosting Employment, Aiding the Working Poor (7/19/05) CBPP: Deficits Frame Coming Debate on Estate Tax (7/8/05) CBPP: Estate Tax Compromise Extremely Costly; True Cost Likely to Be Masked (7/7/05) CBPP: Why The Estate Tax Is Not "Double Taxation" (6/17/05) CBPP: Repealing the AMT Without Offsetting the Cost Would Add $1 Trillion to the Debt Over the Next Decade (6/9/05) CTJ: AMT Repeal Would Heavily Favor the Wealthy (5/24/05) CBPP: Ways and Means Social Security Bill Could Include Costly, Poorly Targeted Tax Proposals (5/27/05) United for a Fair Economy: Comments on Estate Tax to President's Advisory Panel (5/24/05) CBPP: Estate Tax Myths and Realities (5/18/05) State EITC Online Resource Center: EITC Policy Update (5/9/05) Brookings: Tienes EITC? A Study of the Earned Income Tax Credit in Immigrant Communities (April 2005) CBPP: Estate Tax "Compromise" May Differ Little from Permanent Repeal (4/20/05) CBPP: With Taxes Low and Deficits High, More Tax Cuts Would Be Irresponsible (4/13/05) The Bell Policy Center: Congress Considering Cuts to EITC Earned by Soldiers (4/12/05) Americans for Fair Estate Tax: Letter to the House Opposing H.R. 8 (Full Repeal of the Estate Tax) (4/13/05) CBPP: House to Vote on Repeal of Estate Tax; Will Cost $1 Trillion Over a Decade (4/12/05) CBPP: The Impact on State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families (4/12/05) Center for American Progress: Reconnecting Tax and Budget Policies (4/1/05) Tax Policy Center: Disparities in Knowledge about the EITC (3/28/05) CTJ: Senate Votes to Take Money from Medicare to Increase Social Security for the Wealthy (3/23/05) (analysis of the Bunning Amendment to the Senate budget resolution) CBPP: Congress Using Reconciliation Process to Make Tax Cuts Easier (3/21/05) CBPP: Estate Tax Reform Could Raise Much-Needed Revenue (3/16/05) CBPP: Need to Restore Pay-As-You-Go Budget Enforcement to Tax Cuts and Entitlements (3/14/05) CHN: Dangerous Choices: The President's Fiscal Year 2006 Budget (3/8/05) United Way: Analysis of the CARE Act (2/24/05) Americans for Fair Estate Tax: Fact Sheet on Estate Tax and Impact on Nonprofits (2/3/05) Americans for Fair Estatate Tax: Fact Sheet on Estate Tax, Family Farms, and Small Business (2/3/05) CBPP: CBO Data Show Tax Cuts - Not Spending - Fuel the Deficit (1/25/05) CBPP: The Simple Story: Tax Cuts Lose Revenues (1/25/05) NWLC: "Lower Your Taxes" Tax Credit Outreach Campaign for 2005 (1/24/05) EPI Jobwatch: Bush Tax Cuts Failed to Create Jobs (1/7/05)
2004
Urban: Bush Administration Tax Policy: Summary and Outlook (11/29/04) American Prospect: Tax Missimplification: It's Not a Done Deal (December 2004) (subscription required) CBPP: Provisions in the Corporate Tax Bill Mask its Long-Term Impact on Deficit (10/7/04) CBPP: Many Middle Class Families Net Losers From "Middle Class" Tax Cuts (9/21/04) CTJ: 82 Big Corporations Paid No Tax in 2001-2003 (9/22/04) FTFA: Fact Sheet on Tax Breaks (September 2004) CTJ: State-by-State Effect of Implementing a National Sales Tax (9/1/04) CTJ: Do Fat Cats Pay Lower Tax Rates? (7/22/04) CBPP: House Pay-As-You-Go Plan Makes Mockery of Fiscal Discipline (6/23/04) CTJ: Corporate Pork Trumps Rational Jobs Policy (6/16/04) CBPP: Should the Senate Raise the Income Limit for Child Tax Credit? (6/11/04) CBPP: The Ultimate Burden of Tax Cuts (6/2/04) CBPP: Tax Returns: An Assessment of Bush's Record on Cutting Taxes (4/15/04) CDF: Corporations and Wealthy Benefit From Tax Cuts; Poor Still Struggle (4/15/04) CBPP: Tax Returns: New Report Questions Bush Tax Cuts (4/14/04) CTJ: Overall Tax Rates Flattened Sharply Under Bush (4/13/04) UFE: Shifty Tax Cuts: Moving the Tax Burden off the Rich and onto Everyone Else (4/8/04) CBPP: Too Good to Be True (3/22/04) TPC: AMT Relief in the FY 2005 Budget: A Bandaid for a Hemorrhage (3/17/04) CBPP: State Estate Taxes Affect Very Few Estates (2/18/04) Brookings: How EITC Benefits Urban, Rural Communities in 50 States (February 2004)
2003 CTJ: How Do the Bush Tax Cuts Affect Your State? (11/19/03) Brookings: EITC's Potential to Make Housing More Affordable (October 2003) CBPP: Special Report on EITC Pre-Certification (7/23/03) NWLC: Moms Left Behind By Child Tax Credit Stalemate (7/17/03) CBPP Comments to IRS on EITC Pre-Certification (7/16/03) Brookings: Tax Reform for Families: An Earned Income Child Credit (July 2003) CTJ: Tax Plan's Child Credit Leaves Behind One In Four Children (5/29/03) => Back to Tax Policy Main Page
