Chye-Ching Huang
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Executive Director @taxlawcenter.org Tax, law, policy, budget, economy. US & NZ. Former Senior Director for Economic Policy @centeronbudget.bsky.social.
Our new project features a series of explainers breaking down tax administration, regulation, and litigation. It focuses on the critical and often overlooked role of tax administrators and courts—and the real-world impacts of their decisions. taxlawcenter.org/the-federal-...
The Federal Tax System Explained
Tax administrators and the courts play a critical and often overlooked role in the tax system. This project focuses on these institutions and the impact of their work.
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Includes useful advice on avoiding the types of tax scams that we warned about previously: taxlawcenter.org/blog/here-co....
taxgirl@taxgirl.bsky.social · 6mo agoForget the hacks and social media shortcuts promising unbelievable tax results. A former IRS insider explains the real traps that could trip up taxpayers this filing season—and how to avoid them. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...
Great resource:
Vanessa Williamson@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣 📣 Just in time for tax season, we're launching the Brookings "IRS Spotlight": datasets & analysis on all things IRS, safe from govt shutdowns and data purges. Want info on call wait times? Leadership turnover? IRS-ICE data sharing? We’ve got you covered: www.brookings.edu/projects/the...
Congress agreed over the weekend to cut the IRS's base budget by a reported $1 billion. This would be a serious policy mistake at a time when the IRS remains severely depleted. Honest taxpayers deserve better.
Has Mitt Romney been reading the @taxlawcenter.org Tealbook of options to broaden the tax base? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
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“Decreasing criminal enforcement across all types of taxpayers would signal an indifference to cheating and insults the millions of honest filers who pay the taxes they owe,” said David Hubbert, a senior fellow at the Tax Law Center.
Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social · 8mo agoEXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found. www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...
The draft Senate appropriations bill would cut nearly $1 billion in discretionary funding for IRS operations. This cut would undermine necessary information technology upgrades at the IRS not just this year, but potentially for years to come. taxlawcenter.org/blog/senate-...
Senate Appropriations Bill Would Set the IRS Up to Fail When IRA Funds Run Out
The draft Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill released by Senate Republicans would cut discretionary funding for IRS operations support by 22 percent,...
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EXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found. www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...
Excellent analysis from @taxlawcenter.org team outlining legal and revenue loss risks associated with the Treasury's gradual erosion of the corporate alternative minimum tax. I'll add: this also puts the US further out of line with globally agreed minimum tax standards.
The Tax Law Center at NYU Law@taxlawcenter.org · 8mo agoOur piece in @taxnotes.com outlines how recent CAMT guidance may overstep Treasury's authority to make adjustments to the law. The guidance signals a gradual regulatory repeal at the request of stakeholders, with billions in revenue on the line. taxlawcenter.org/work/recent-...
NEW from me & Ellis Chen on IRS oversight. What do we know and what we need to know about: > IRS criminal investigations partnering with ICE > what the 25% staffing cut means for tax refunds > what has happened to IRS high-wealth audits > Palantir's new contracts & your data privacy
Five Questions for IRS CEO Frank Bisignano
The IRS has a new leader – maybe he can tell us whats happening
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Tuning in for SCOTUS oral argument on tariffs today? @justsecurity.org @taxlawcenter.org's Kelsey Merrick with a primer on how using tariffs to raise revenue is a choice for Congress, not the President.
Just Security@justsecurity.org · 9mo agoOn Wednesday, SCOTUS will weigh whether the President can use IEEPA to unilaterally impose tariffs. Kelsey Merrick argues Congress intentionally ended tariffs as a major revenue source decades ago and never delegated that choice to the President. www.justsecurity.org/123833/tarif...
Tuning in for SCOTUS oral argument on tariffs today? @justsecurity.org @taxlawcenter.org's Kelsey Merrick with a primer on how using tariffs to raise revenue is a choice for Congress, not the President.
Just Security@justsecurity.org · 9mo agoOn Wednesday, SCOTUS will weigh whether the President can use IEEPA to unilaterally impose tariffs. Kelsey Merrick argues Congress intentionally ended tariffs as a major revenue source decades ago and never delegated that choice to the President. www.justsecurity.org/123833/tarif...
On Wednesday, SCOTUS will weigh whether the President can use IEEPA to unilaterally impose tariffs. Kelsey Merrick argues Congress intentionally ended tariffs as a major revenue source decades ago and never delegated that choice to the President. www.justsecurity.org/123833/tarif...
The Use of Tariffs to Raise Revenue is a Choice for Congress
Congress did not write IEEPA to allow a President to replace the income tax system with a patchwork of tariffs that they can impose, adjust, or suspend at will.
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On 10/28, join us for a panel discussion highlighting how OBBBA missed substantial opportunities to improve the tax system and falls far short of the "tax reform" that many across the political spectrum have long called for. nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fun fact: You can write clarinet lessons off on your taxes! (with a note from your dentist) It’s one of thousands of exemptions I look at why U.S. taxes are so complicated for @marketplace.org with @dashching.bsky.social & Larry Zelenak @dukelaw.bsky.social www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
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Could be a big deal for many filers, including those who are elderly, disabled, rural, and unbanked:
The Tax Law Center at NYU Law@taxlawcenter.org · 11mo agoTreasury and IRS have not yet announced how they plan to implement the Administration’s executive order ending the use of paper checks for tax refunds. We outline potential issues and recommendations for a sound implementation plan: taxlawcenter.org/blog/rushed-...
New from me at @brookings.edu: Unprecedented, dangerous turnover at IRS: Of 31 top positions, 15 have turned over since January, 2 have been placed on leave, 2 are vacant and 3 are slated for elimination. www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Our analysis of the full Joint Committee on Taxation tables of the flawed GOP megabill: a $1T tax cut for the top 1% and a staggering $2.4T tax cut for the top 10%. Tax cuts of around $500B for households in the bottom 60%--the very folks who also face the brunt of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
Eliminating multi-language services would make it harder for taxpayers to comply with their tax obligations, set honest taxpayers up to fail and needlessly put tax revenue at risk. The IRS should not move forward with this harmful idea that has no sound tax administration purpose.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.Exclusive: Trump administration officials are considering eliminating multi-language services at the IRS, according to records obtained by The Post, a move that would make it dramatically more difficult for non-English-speakers to file their taxes.
We are excited to launch a project to remake federal tax administration. Effective tax administration is critical to the federal government, but has recently faced drastic challenges over the last six months.
SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
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This piece confirms grave risk to all taxpayers from DHS efforts to get its hands on legally protected IRS data, risking targeting of US citizens, mistaken arrests, and rampant violations of privacy rights and civil liberties
ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.NEW: The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
TPC corrects the record on taxes on Social Security benefits. Trump Admin claimed "nearly 90% of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay fed income taxes on their bens" 50.9% of filers w/SS bens paid the tax before 47.3% now Only 3.6% no longer pay taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/corre...
Correcting the Social Security Administration About The Big Budget Bill
The misleading communication from SSA may add to the confusion many older adults already feel about the complex retirement insurance program.
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Via @jeffstein.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com anti-tax interests want the Trump IRS to give an unlawful tax cut to wealthy people by executive fiat. Just the tip of one of two big icebergs of tax cuts for special interests coming for the tax system. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Conservatives are asking Trump for another big tax cut
Fresh off passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” some anti-tax advocates hope to push the administration to change how taxable capital gains are calculated.
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The 2017 tax bill was bad for Republican politicians. The 2025 law could easily be worse. www.taxnotes.com/featured-ana...
Grim Polls for the GOP Budget Bill | Tax Notes
Joseph J. Thorndike examines the results of several polls that report voter support of and opposition to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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The Senate-passed bill weakens the tax system and makes it more regressive, complex, and gameable. Many of its tax cuts are complicated and wasteful tax breaks that dole out favors to specific industries and activities with little or no good policy reason.
Thread: Lawmakers are realizing “surprises,” “airdrops” &“mysteries” are buried in the bill. Time to take a beat: seems more important to know what's in a ~$5T bill than meet a fake deadline! Things worth $10s/100s of billions & people’s livelihoods & health aren’t “minutiae.”
Thread: Article highlighting a tax break for the wealthy shoved into the tax bill the Senate is considering: turbo-charging a loophole-ridden tax break for venture capitalists and other well-off investors. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (Paywall via @bloomberglaw.com @bloombergtax.com)
Silicon Valley's Favorite Tax Break Gets Stronger Under GOP's Proposed Spending Bill
Silicon Valley’s favorite tax break may be getting an upgrade.
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While tax subsidies for space ports were added to the text in the middle of the night.
E.J. Dionne@ejdionne.bsky.social · last yr.The Senate is racing to pass “a stand alone in history—a reconciliation bill that drives up poverty and the number of people uninsured, while increasing deficits and debt.” @centeronbudget.bsky.social How many GOP Senators who will vote for it think this is a good idea? www.cbpp.org/press/statem...