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Chye-Ching Huang

@dashching.bsky.social
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Executive Director @taxlawcenter.org Tax, law, policy, budget, economy. US & NZ. Former Senior Director for Economic Policy @centeronbudget.bsky.social.

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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 06/02/2026
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-...
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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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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Includes useful advice on avoiding the types of tax scams that we warned about previously: taxlawcenter.org/blog/here-co....
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Great resource:
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chuckcbpp.bsky.social @chuckcbpp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Has Mitt Romney been reading the @taxlawcenter.org Tealbook of options to broaden the tax base? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
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Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 11/12/2025
“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.
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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 11/12/2025
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-...
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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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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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...
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Zorka Milin @zorkamilin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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.
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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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
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Five Questions for IRS CEO Frank Bisignano
The IRS has a new leader – maybe he can tell us whats happening
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 03/11/2025
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...
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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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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 22/10/2025
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...
Flyer for an event titled "OBBBA & The Missed Opportunity for Tax Reform," taking place on Tuesday, October 28th from 10:30 - 11:30 am ET. The flyer lists the panelists: Wendy Edelberg (The Brookings Institution), Jason Furman (Harvard University), Chye-Ching Huang (The Tax Law Center), Jessica Riedl (The Manhattan Institute), Kyle Pomerleau (American Enterprise Institute), and Adam Tarleton (Brooks Pierce). The flyer includes logos for Tax Law Center at NYU Law and NYU Law. It has a green and blue background.
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Stacey Vanek Smith @svaneksmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Could be a big deal for many filers, including those who are elderly, disabled, rural, and unbanked:
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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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...
Organizational chart of the IRS noting turnover, vacancies, staff placed on leave and positions eliminated.
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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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.
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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 25/07/2025
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.
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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 17/07/2025
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.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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...
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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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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 15/07/2025
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
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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...
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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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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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...
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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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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
House-passed, etc.:
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Joe Thorndike @joethorndike.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The 2017 tax bill was bad for Republican politicians. The 2025 law could easily be worse. www.taxnotes.com/featured-ana...
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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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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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.”
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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)
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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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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
While tax subsidies for space ports were added to the text in the middle of the night.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Some of the surprise costly new tax breaks popped up overnight in the new Senate text: 1) tax benefits for spaceports (who asked for this?) 2) tax credits for coal (including exports)
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
THREAD: The SALT “deal” in the latest Senate bill is a nonsensical approach to tax policy. It preserves (and lessens) a limit on deductions for wealthy taxpayers while ignoring a loophole that allows the wealthiest of those taxpayers to avoid the limit entirely.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
And the US tax system is *subsidizing* executives' personal use of company jets by not fully including that perk in their taxable income: taxlawcenter.org/tealbook/pol....
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Another day, more SALT discussion news, but as yet none of it about this potentially major $$$ sleeper issue:
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
THREAD: GOP Senators say they're trying to scale back the SALT cap relief in the House bill. But could the approach to SALT in the Senate bill actually end up *more* generous & costly overall than the House bill? Do Senators – or does anyone – even know, despite the intense political focus on SALT?
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"The Senate Finance Committee bill's approach to the SALT cap is incredibly complex, confusingly drafted, and raises significant questions about its intent and operation, particularly with respect to PTET workarounds." Initial @taxlawcenter.org overview: taxlawcenter.org/blog/senate-...
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Senate Finance draft partially limits SALT cap workarounds but needs clarification
The SFC bill's approach to the SALT cap is incredibly complex, confusingly drafted, and raises significant questions about its intent and operation, particularly with respect to PTET workarounds. Whil...
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
There's a reason we keep saying it's important for the government to safeguard sensitive personal data . . .
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Zorka Milin @zorkamilin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Great comment from @dashching.bsky.social @taxlawcenter.org on the international "revenge tax" in the Republican bill, which puts at risk domestic jobs and growth. So much for America First! apnews.com/article/trum...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The idea from someone quoted in this piece that the "revenge tax" could be "fixed" by giving more authority to the Administration to do what it likes is mindboggling given the tariff experience.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Tucked in the House bill: A provision that if in place in 2020 (most recent year of audits generally complete, & had there been no changes in filing behavior) would have meant the IRS conducting more than 35 times as many audits of individual taxpayers as it did. taxlawcenter.org/blog/propose...
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Proposed EITC Pre-Certification Regime Will Lead to an Unprecedented Number of Audits, Overwhelmingly Focused on Low- and Moderate-income Workers Claiming the EITC
The House-passed reconciliation bill would result in a historic increase in audits of working families, while ongoing IRS funding and staffing cuts erode high-end enforcement. This piece illustrates h...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
And yet parts of the business community think this Administration won't let any of the economic self-harm embedded in section 899 ("tweaked" by the Senate or not) actually come to pass. Hmmm.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
SSA also holds tax data. This event discussed risks to taxpayer data leaving and held outside the IRS:
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Certain people have begun to notice how the House tax bill doesn't change tax breaks for oil & gas, only those for clean energy. Learn about: House bill's changes to clean energy credits: taxlawcenter.org/blog/house-b... Tax code subsidies for foreign oil & gas: taxlawcenter.org/tealbook/pol...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The unfolding revenge/retaliation tax (section 899) saga is a good example of post-passage realizations about what the bill does after there's been time to read it.... taxlawcenter.org/blog/protect...
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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 03/06/2025
Full recording of our discussion on risks to taxpayer privacy from DOGE & related efforts featuring Daniel Werfel, Lily Batchelder, Brandon DeBot, Elizabeth Laird, and David Padrino nyu.zoom.us/rec/share/IF...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thread: New from @taxlawcenter.org: we get in the weeds (footnotes) and also big picture on the section 899 "revenge"/retaliation tax in the House bill that's under active consideration in the Senate. taxlawcenter.org/work/revenge...
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"Revenge” taxes: Risks and uncertainties (proposed section 899)
This piece focuses on a new proposed section of the tax code (section 899) in the House-passed reconciliation bill. Section 899 would raise tax rates on significant categories of US-source income paid...
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The Tax Law Center at NYU Law @taxlawcenter.org · 02/06/2025
Tomorrow, join the Tax Law Center for a conversation featuring former IRS and Treasury leadership on the risks of unprecedented efforts to use and share sensitive taxpayer data across government. Register here: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Register for Webinar: Understanding Risks to Taxpayer Privacy
Please join the Tax Law Center for a virtual discussion of the legal, privacy, and cybersecurity risks of unprecedented efforts to access, use, and share taxpayer data across government for purposes f...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Important to keep an eye on these threats to the core of the tax system, even as reconciliation trundles along:
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
THREAD Markets are waking up to a provision buried in the House bill that could undermine the demand for US Treasuries at a time when bond markets are already jittery: www.ft.com/content/b400... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Foreign tax provision in Trump budget bill spooks Wall Street
Legislation would erode the appeal of US financial assets, warn banks and investors
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Given the latest twist in the ever-chaotic tariff war, here's a reminder that the House bill has a provision that tries to ignite a tax and investment war, too:
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