Child Tax Credit Archive
What’s Going on with the Child Tax Credit Debate?
October 19, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden expanded and fundamentally changed the Child Tax Credit (CTC) for one year in the American Rescue Plan (ARP) passed in March 2021. Policymakers are now deciding the future of the expansion as part of the proposed reconciliation package, but a wide range of estimates for the effects of a permanent expansion
Child Tax Credit Changes | Temporary Policies Complicate Its Future
September 3, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Over the next ten years, the structure of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) is scheduled to change, complicating efforts to extend enhanced Child Tax Credit benefits or reform the Child Tax Credit for the long-term. Rather than take an all-or-nothing approach or kick the can down the road by relying on temporary expansions, lawmakers
Don’t Add More Temporary Tax Policies in Budget Reconciliation
August 30, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As policymakers consider using the budget reconciliation process to make tax changes and enact new spending programs, they may be inclined to add to an already growing list of temporary tax provisions. New temporary tax policy should be avoided in reconciliation. Temporary policy creates uncertainty for taxpayers and scheduling more expirations will add
Increasing Share of U.S. Households Paying No Income Tax
August 20, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On Wednesday, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) released estimates on the portion of households with no federal income tax liability, finding that in 2020, about 60.6 percent of households did not pay income tax, up from 43.6 percent of households in 2019. Much of the 2020 increase was due to pandemic-related factors, but
