Overtime Income Tax Break: Not Illogical, Just Costly and Complicated
Last month, former President Donald Trump declared, “If you’re an overtime worker, when you’re past 40 hours a week . . . your overtime hours will be tax-free.”
Presidential Candidates’ Dueling Child Credit Expansions Explained
The Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz presidential campaigns have each recently proposed large expansions to the child tax credit (CTC). Both proposals might be intended to appeal to similar voters, but they vary significantly regarding budgetary cost, distribution of benefits, and effect on work incentives.
A Tip Exemption Is Not Sound Tax Policy
Earlier this week, Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigning in Nevada, endorsed exempting tips from the individual income tax. This follows former President Donald Trump’s proposal last month to do the same.
Implications of Cannabis Legalization for the US Federal Budget
While the details of future federal legislation and executive actions to legalize, regulate, and tax cannabis remain unknown, such policies could have significant impacts on the federal budget.
Trump Talks Taxes and Tariffs
Former President Trump trotted through Washington last week leaving a trail of policy proposals behind him. Two revenue proposals are worth noting.
- ‘Facing the Future’: Alex Brill discusses tax code and budget challenges
- 2026 Portman Center Symposium: Building an Achievable Fiscal Policy
- Senator Booker’s Costly Standard Deduction Proposal Would Reduce Charitable Giving
- FDA Continues to Expedite Biosimilar Development
- Diminishing Returns from the Government’s Drug Negotiation Program
- Would Senate Passage of an ACA Tax Credit Extension Matter?
- MGA Brief Examines State and Federal PBM Mandates
- FDA Moves to Facilitate Biosimilar Development
- How Pharmaceutical Tariffs Will Affect US Health Care Costs
- MGA Releases New Report Quantifying the Economic Impact of Healthcare Distributors
