Tax credits can also be used to support households with a range of other necessary expenses, from education, to rent, energy assistance, and more. The tax system has also been identified as a potential vehicle for creating an income floor — for example, through a negative income tax credit or dividend to provide a form of universal basic income — to support families. We examine policy and proposals across these areas at the federal, state, and local level, including in New York City, as they continue to emerge.
Research
2023
- Income guarantee policy design: Implications for poverty, income distribution, and tax rates, National Tax Journal—June 2023
2018
- A renter’s tax credit to curtail the affordable housing crisis, The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences—Feb 2018
2023
2020
- Teenage and young adult dependents left out of cash payments in COVID-19 crisis—May 2020
- Income guarantee benefits and financing: Poverty and distributional impacts—Feb 2020
- Comparing recent income maintenance proposals—Feb 2020
- The case for counting children in a carbon tax dividend plan—Feb 2020
2019