Chuck Marr
Center on Budget
Washington, DC, United States
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Year-End Tax Policy Priority: Expand the Child Tax Credit for the 19 Million Children Who Receive Less Than the Full Credit
Policymakers should not enact any year-end corporate tax breaks without expanding the Child Tax Credit. → Read More
Congress Should Adopt American Families Plan’s Permanent Expansions of Child Tax Credit and EITC, Make Additional Provisions Permanent
Congress should adopt these proposed changes, which would result in reductions of child poverty and provide income support for millions of people. And it should go two steps further. → Read More
Asking Wealthiest Households to Pay Fairer Amount in Tax Would Help Fund a More Equitable Recovery
To fund the investments that would help build a more equitable recovery, President Biden is expected to ask the wealthiest households to pay a fairer amount in federal taxes. With the nation’s... → Read More
Working Families Tax Relief Act Would Boost Incomes Across America
As we honor workers by celebrating Labor Day, we should remember that millions who do important jobs — such as serving store customers, making restaurant meals, delivering packages, and caring for the elderly in nursing homes — work for low pay, have little control over their work schedules, and lack paid vacations or even paid sick days. They deserve better. → Read More
Audits of Highest-Income Taxpayers Fall Again
The IRS reported yesterday that it audited fewer millionaires and large corporations in fiscal year 2018 than the previous year, continuing a multi-year decline. Since 2010, the President and Congress have cut IRS funding substantially, causing workforce reductions and shortages of top auditors who have the expertise to review millionaires’ and corporations’ complex returns. → Read More
Working Families Tax Relief Act Would Raise Incomes of 46 Million Households, Reduce Child Poverty
The proposal would improve the economic well-being of 46 million low- and moderate-income households with 114 million people. → Read More
Pass-Throughs and Corporations Had No Parity to Maintain
Among the 2017 tax law’s most flawed parts is a large tax break for certain “pass-through” income — which the owners of businesses such as partnerships, S corporations, and sole proprietorships report on their individual tax returns rather than pay the corporate tax. Its proponents misguidedly argued that it was needed to maintain “parity” (i.e., a level playing field) between these businesses… → Read More
Tax Foundation Figures Do Not Represent Typical Households’ Tax Burdens
The figures may mislead policymakers, journalists, and the public. → Read More
IRS Must Now Be a Top Funding Priority
Now that President Trump and congressional leaders have raised annual spending caps for defense and non-defense discretionary programs for 2018 and 2019, policymakers should make additional Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding a top priority. The recent tax bill poses a once-in-a-generation, multi-dimensional challenge for the IRS, and the President and Congress must give → Read More
GOP’s Tax Conference Priority: Tax-Free Inheritances or Less Harm to Working Families?
Giving the heirs of the nation’s wealthiest estates the largest possible estate tax cut would be a strikingly poor choice. → Read More
Rubio-Lee Child Credit Proposal Should Be in Final Tax Bill
During debate on the Senate tax bill, Senators Marco Rubio and Mike Lee offered an amendment to improve the bill’s Child Tax Credit (CTC) for millions of low-income working families, paid for by cutting the corporate tax rate — currently 35 percent — to 20.9 percent rather than 20 percent. → Read More
Senate Tax Bill’s Child Tax Credit Increase Provides Only Token Help to Millions of Children in Low-Income Working Families
Low-income working families would largely miss out on the increase, just as in the earlier version. → Read More
New Senate Child Credit Proposal Still Doesn’t Prioritize Families That Most Need It
In revising the Senate Republican tax plan’s expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch raised its cost by about $13 billion (or 22 percent) per year but did nothing for the millions of low- and moderate-income working families that would get only token help under the prior proposal. → Read More
House Tax Bill’s Child Tax Credit Increase Excludes Thousands of Children in Low-Income Working Families in Every State
1 in 3 children in working families would either be excluded entirely or only partially benefit from the CTC increase. → Read More
House GOP’s Child Tax Credit Expansion Excludes Millions of Children in Lower-Income Working Families
The proposal excludes millions of children whose parents work in low-wage jobs, even as it expands eligibility for higher-income families. → Read More
Republican Leaders’ Tax Plan Would Deliver Large Tax Cuts to the Wealthiest Americans Even if It Doesn’t Cut the Top Rate
The plan contains various other key provisions that would disproportionately benefit people at the top of the income spectrum and give many of them tax-cut windfalls. → Read More
“Big Six” Tax Framework Provides Windfall to High-Income Households, With Working Families Largely an Afterthought
The top 1 percent of households would get roughly 50 percent of the framework’s net tax cuts, and the top 0.1 percent would get roughly 30 percent. → Read More
Despite President’s Promise, Emerging Details Point to Large Tax Cut for Wealthiest
Emerging details of the “Big Six” Republican tax framework contradict President Trump’s September 13 promise that wealthy people “will not be gaining at all with this plan” and his suggestion that if their tax rates “have to go higher, they’ll go higher.” In fact, the details suggest that the Republican tax effort remains aimed in substantial part at delivering large tax cuts to the nation’s… → Read More
Unpaid-for Tax Cuts for Wealthy Even Less Defensible Now Than in Bush Era
Senate Budget Committee Republicans drafting a 2018 budget resolution are reportedly considering letting the Senate use the fast-track “reconciliation” process to pass a tax bill that loses revenue and increases deficits. → Read More
How Tax Reform Can Raise Working-Class Incomes
Federal policies — including tax reform — should help those who need it most. → Read More