Tax Policy In The Trump Administration

• Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & Thomas Brosy (Tax Policy Center),  Congress Plans to Punish “Discriminatory” Taxes: Can It Work?
• BC Law, Professor Ray Madoff Takes on the U.S. Tax Code and its Role as a Driver of Economic Inequality
• Bloomberg, Bessent Says Trump Moving Forward on Harvard Tax Review 
• Bloomberg, A Dysfunctional IRS Is Bad for Red and Blue State Taxpayers Alike
• Bloomberg, GOP Tax Carveout Takes Big Swing at Sports
• Bloomberg, GOP’s Tax on Foundations Takes Aim at Billionaire Philanthropy
• Bloomberg, A Guide to Trump’s Tax Cuts: What’s in His ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill
• Bloomberg, Republicans Have a SALT Tax Deal. Who Will Benefit?

• Bloomberg, Sports Team Owners’ Write Off Halved in Republicans’ Tax Bill
• Bloomberg, Trump’s Threat to Harvard’s Tax Status Reaches All Nonprofits
• Brookings, What’s Happening With Opportunity Zones in the Reconciliation Bill?
• Canter and Budget and Policy Priorities, House Republican Tax Bill Is Skewed to Wealthy, Costs More Than Extending 2017 Tax Law, and Fails to Deliver for Families
• Cato Institute, A College Endowment Tax Is the Wrong Federal Policy
• Cato Institute, Congress Should Repeal the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, Not Expand It
• Cato Institute, Four Things the Senate Can Do to Improve the House Tax Bill
• Inequality.org, Increased Pass-Through Business Tax Break Would Worsen Inequality Without Boosting Growth
• Institute for Policy Studies, Wealth Expands After Higher State Taxes on High-Income Earners
• Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Analysis of Tax Provisions in the House Reconciliation Bill: National and State Level Estimates
• Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, House Tax Bill Would Create a Parallel, Harsher Tax Code for Immigrant Filers and their Citizen Family Members
• Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, States Should Chart Their Own Course on SALT Deductions
• MarketWatch, Why States Can Raise Taxes on the Rich Without Fearing They’ll Pack Up and Leave
• New York Times, Bill Would Give Newborns $1,000 in ‘Trump Accounts’
• New York Times, Bond Market Shudders as Tax Bill Deepens Deficit Worries
• New York Times, A Complete List of Everything in the Republican Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save
• New York Times, G.O.P. Tax Bill May Hurt the Lowest Earners and Help the Richest
• New York Times, How ‘No Tax on Tips’ Will Affect Waiters, Drivers and Diners
• New York Times, The Little Giveaways Tucked Into the Big Republican Bill
• New York Times, Republican Bill Sets Stage for a New Global Tax Fight
• New York Times, Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses
• New York Times, Republican Plan to Tax Elite Colleges Could Hit in Unexpected Places
• New York Times, The Republican Tax Bill Could Sharply Slow E.V. Sales
• New York Times, Trump’s Pick to Lead I.R.S. Promoted a Nonexistent Tax Credit
• New York Times, Trump’s Tax Policy Collides with Market Reality
• New York Times, Trump Wants to Fulfill His ‘No Tax on Tips’ Promise. The Details Get Tricky.
• New York Times, Why Tax Shelters Aren’t Just for Billionaires
• New York Times, Why Washington’s Huge Tax Bill Is Worrying Bond Investors
• New York Times Op-Ed (Jason Furman), Behold the New Tax Plan: More Complicated, Less Fair, Totally Unaffordable
• NYU Tax Law Center, House Bill Underscores Seriousness of Taxpayer Privacy Violations
• NYU Tax Law Center, House Bill Would End Many Clean Energy Credits and Add Unworkable Rules to Others
• NYU Tax Law Center, House Reconciliation Bill Picks Winners and Losers in the Tax Code
• NYU Tax Law Center, Ways and Means Bill Curtails SALT Cap Workarounds for All Passthrough Entities
• Penn Wharton, House Reconciliation Bill: Budget, Economic, and Distributional Effects
• Penn Wharton, House Reconciliation Bill: Illustrative Calculations with Permanence
• Robert Reich (UC-Berkeley), Don't Blame the Bond Vigilantes—Just Tax the Rich!
• Rolling Stone, 10 Terrible Policies in Trump and the GOP’s Bill to Cut Taxes for the Rich
• Tax Foundation, House Tax Cuts Would Benefit Most, But Tilt To Highest-Income Households
• Tax Foundation, A More Generous SALT Deduction Cap in the Big, Beautiful Bill Would Cost Revenue and Primarily Benefit High Earners
• Tax Foundation, Current Trump Tariffs Threaten to Offset Benefits of Promised Tax Cuts
• Tax Foundation, What Are the Goals of Retaliatory Tax Policies?
• Tax Notes, The House Budget Bill’s Clean Energy Tax Credit Changes
• Tax Notes, IRS Chatbot Performance Lags Amid Staff Cuts
• Tax Notes, Probationary IRS Employees Told to Return to Work
• TaxVox, For Once, Economists Agree: Extending Section 199A Is A Bad Idea
• TaxVox, House Tax Cuts Would Benefit Most, But Tilt To Highest-Income Households
• Wall Street Journal, Breaking Down What’s in the GOP Tax Bill
• Wall Street Journal, House Passes Trump Tax Bill After Last-Minute Changes
• Wall Street Journal, How a New $40,000 SALT Cap Would Affect Your Tax Bill
• Wall Street Journal, The Stark Math on the GOP Tax Plan: It Doesn’t Cut the Deficit
• Wall Street Journal, Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Heads to Senate, Where New Fights Loom
• Wall Street Journal, Trump’s Economic Agenda Hinges on Tax Bill That Divides His Own Party
• Wall Street Journal, Trump’s IRS Pick Defends His Record Promoting Tax Breaks
• Wall Street Journal Editorial, The GOP’s SALT Deal Folly
• Wall Street Journal Editorial, How SALT Republicans Help Big Taxers
• Wall Street Journal Editorial, How the Senate Can Improve the House Tax and Budget Bill
• Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (William A. Galston), Big Tax Hikes Are Coming
• Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Stephen Moore), Save Us From the CBO and JCT
• Washington Post, The Senate Passed Trump’s No Tax on Tips Act. Here’s What It Could Mean.
• Washington Post, Trump’s Tax Bill Plan Adds to Federal Debt, Prompting Investor Backlash
• Yale Budget Lab, Budgetary Effects of the May 2025 Tax Bill
• Yale Budget Lab, Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House Reconciliation Bill

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