Renu Zaretsky
Tax Policy Center
Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States
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Who Gets the Tax Benefit For Those Checkout Donations?
If you’ve shopped recently at your supermarket, there’s a good chance you faced a choice at the checkout counter: Whether to give to a charity. But like so much else these days, these giving opportunities have become controversial. → Read More
Home Schooling Tax Policy: Or How We Spent Our First Week Of The Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has given me the chance to teach (thanks to the internet) between three and nine students, ranging in ages from 8 to 15, how to think and write about one of my favorite topics: Taxes. → Read More
Massive Stimulus Delayed… A Day? Tax Day Delayed for 90 Days
Stimulus Part 3: Still in the works. → Read More
Taxes and the Coronavirus
Could tax cuts mitigate the economic effects of coronavirus? → Read More
Tax Revenues: Business as (Un)usual
You can file your 2019 tax returns starting January 27. → Read More
Could A Redesigned Tax Deduction Help More People Feel Good About Charitable Giving?
Tax incentives appear to encourage giving, but by discouraging taxpayers from itemizing deductions, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) left nearly 9 of every 10 households without that nudge. Policymakers could correct this by allowing people to deduct at least some of their charitable gifts of sufficient size, even if the taxpayer doesn’t itemize. → Read More
Taxing Wealth, Answering Questions, and Taking Credits
Tune in this morning for TPC’s event on taxing wealth. → Read More
On a Vote and a Promise (or On a Wing and a Prayer)
On the Hill: A budget vote in the House. → Read More
Europeans Push Ahead On Digital Taxation, Fed Warnings On The Debt Limit, And Fixing A Non-Problem
US displeasure notwithstanding, French lawmakers approved a digital services tax. → Read More
Taxes, Trade Wars, and Tradeoffs
The Trump Administration says the French tech tax may be a trade violation. → Read More
So Close, But Still So Far
US trade deal with China is nearly done, Mnuchin reassures. → Read More
Comfort, Delay, and Gratitude
Court Comfort? → Read More
For Every Action, There Is A Reaction
China retaliates by raising tariffs on $60 billion in US goods effective June 1. → Read More
It’s Infrastructure Week. Again.
Did Trump, Schumer, and Pelosi agree on an infrastructure spending goal? → Read More
Showdowns On The Horizon
Are we headed for another spending showdown? → Read More
Cohen on Trump’s Taxes, More on the 2018 Tax Season
Why has the President been so reluctant to release his tax returns? → Read More
A Deadline, A Threat, and Reasonable Guidance
Debt limit drama. → Read More
Emoluments, A New Fiscal Fight, And Maybe, A Mandate
The Trump Organization donates more profits to Treasury. → Read More
A TCJA loophole and stock buybacks
A Park Avenue loophole from the SALT deduction cap. → Read More
High Taxes, Big Deals, and State Actions
Another poll shows that Americans largely support higher taxes on the wealthy. → Read More