Avoiding a Household Debt Crisis with a Targeted Policy Response
Gudrun Johnsen | 8 January 2021
Blog,
Fiscal | Tags:
Covid-19,
Debt,
Income Tax,
Unemployment The economic effect of the Covid-19 pandemic varies highly across industrial sectors, education levels and income groups, adding further to inequality across the globe. This calls for highly targeted policy responses for the sake of fiscal prudence and to avoid further economic and financial hardship
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What the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Means for Tax Expenditures
Eric Toder | 20 June 2019
Blog,
Fiscal | Tags:
Income Tax,
Inequality,
Tax Expenditures In a new paper, my former Tax Policy Center colleague Daniel Berger and I calculate that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) modestly reduced the cost of tax expenditures in the individual income tax and made them slightly less regressive. We estimate that
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Tax Policy 2020 – Fundamentals, Effects and Scenarios
7 November 2014 Conferences,
Fiscal | Tags:
BEPS,
Carbon Tax,
Corporate Tax,
Income Tax,
Inheritance Tax,
Wealth Tax Conference on international and Swiss tax policymaking, its long-term effects and scenarios for tax reforms moving forward.
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