Politicians—Democrats and Republicans alike—regularly complain about high drug prices and the need for policy changes to make prescription medicines more affordable for patients (read: voters).
The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) recently provided lawmakers with a dynamic score and macroeconomic analysis of a policy to permanently extend the child tax credit (CTC) enacted in President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP).
In a previous post, we explained how President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could result in $4.8 billion in additional state income taxes from borrowers in seven states.
Three policy experts join Richard Rubin of The Wall Street Journal to examine the current iteration of the Build Back Better Act.
Last week, President Biden signed into law the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP). The plan provides economic relief to households through the tax code, making several credits fully refundable and advanceable and providing stimulus checks that already started arriving in bank accounts this past weekend. We have created a web application to help users explore how the American Rescue Plan will impact their 2021 federal tax liability.
