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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
Also, watch this space, we'll be updating our TealBook for post-OBBBA options and more in the New Year. taxlawcenter.org/tealbook/pol...
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The Tealbook - Policy Options
With a major year for tax policy looming in 2025, the Tax Law Center aims to deepen the conversation by providing detailed options for potential changes that go beyond simply ending, extending, or mod...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Alicia Munnell picked up on Ray Madoff and Lily's work recently, too: crr.bc.edu/taxing-inher...
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Taxing Inheritances Under the Income Tax is a Great Idea
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Faculty Director @lilybatch.bsky.social also wrote for the @nytimes.com in 2020 about the issue of income going untaxed across generations www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/o...
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Opinion | Tax the Rich and Their Heirs (Published 2020)
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We welcome anyone serious about raising revenue to explore our Tealbook compendium of options taxlawcenter.org/tealbook. It includes options to ensure that capital gains that currently go untaxed across generations are subject to some tax. taxlawcenter.org/tealbook/pol... And some fifty more.
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The Tealbook
With several tax cuts in the 2017 tax law set to expire, 2025 is a good opportunity to consider policies to broaden the tax base. Learn about current holes in the tax system, filter policy options by ...
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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
Conventional wisdom had been that no-one can litigate to block these unlawful regulatory giveaways, despite harm to the rule of law, deficits, & the tax system. But Hemel & Kamin set out above, if you look hard enough, there are potential litigants. At @taxlawcenter.org, we're looking hard.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
In both icebergs, many of the asks will be for things that are either clearly unlawful, or at the very least aren't the best interpretation of the law. E.g. see @danielhemel.bsky.social @davidkamin.bsky.social on cap gains indexation papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The False Promise of Presidential Indexation
The Trump Administration faces mounting pressure from conservative thinkers and activists — including calls from its own National Economic Council director — to
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Some examples from implementation of the 2017 TCJA here: taxlawcenter.org/blog/beware-... (Much linking to Samantha Jacoby @centeronbudget.bsky.social who had her work cut out for her documenting giveaways that made a bad law worse.)
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Beware of “deregulatory” efforts that add to deficits and tilt the tax system to the wealthy
As the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) seeks drastic changes to the federal government in the name of saving money, reporters and commentators have noted that many claimed savings are dub...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The other iceberg is all of the inevitable jockeying and lobbying over regs interpreting and implementing "OBBA". Private interests will pile in and ask for generous interpretations of the law that maximize their tax cuts, sometimes in ways that stretch or overstep what's lawful.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Industry has already been asking for piles of tax regulatory giveaways, more esoteric than the cap gains ask, but also worth $$$. E.g. undoing regs preventing large partnerships playing games with basis. Undoing regs on "microcaptive insurance" tax games: taxlawcenter.org/blog/beware-...
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Beware of “deregulatory” efforts that add to deficits and tilt the tax system to the wealthy
As the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) seeks drastic changes to the federal government in the name of saving money, reporters and commentators have noted that many claimed savings are dub...
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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
To cut taxes for wealthy filers and large businesses, it will take away health coverage and food assistance from struggling families while adding trillions to long-run deficits. More to come from @taxlawcenter.org, including on changes to the bill released just minutes before the vote.
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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
I.e. a bit more efficient redline. So it might flag sec. 70437 is new. But then you have to check its work. & it's not going to (reliably) tell you that the impact of this cap gains deferral is to make it easier for megafarms to buy out small. Or who asked for it. Or what it costs, or who benefits.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Responsible lawmakers should insist on enough time to understand what the provisions already in the bill do, what their impact is, and where they come from. And the same for any coming changes.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
There's very likely more not yet dug up given the ridiculous haste. Given the new surprises in each round of text, Senators should insist on being able to closely study the final “wraparound” amendment.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Some surprises (among many): Spaceport tax breaks Senate SALT policies more generous than the House $15B more in CHIPS tax breaks largely a windfall for projects underway Making it easier for megafarms to buy out family farms
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
House members have been regretting voting for a bill they didn’t have time to understand. One said she “would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.” And she may not have been alone – an amendment to remove the provision (AI reg moratorium) passed 99-1 last night.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Turns out the solar & wind tax was a mystery even to lawmakers who released it. The Budget Committee Chairman, who *released the bill text* said the provision is “a secret, I guess. I don't know where it came from.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... by @frankthorp.bsky.social @sahilkapur.bsky.social
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A megabill mystery: New solar and wind tax comes as a surprise to Republican senators
"I don't know where it came from," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Budget Committee, told NBC News after he released the 940-page legislation.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We flagged some of these: bsky.app/profile/dash...
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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
There will be at least one more round of changes before the bill text is final. What other goodies and windfalls that erode the tax base will be slipped in, and who will reap the rewards?
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is one of the ways that an opaque, rushed process can benefit special interests: each round of 100s of pages of bill text has come with under-the-radar giveaways that may escape serious scrutiny.
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Then over the weekend, billions of dollars more in targeted giveaways were dropped into the bill, with new tax breaks for spaceports and other investments already underway. See e.g. @reportercioffi.bsky.social (paywall): www.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is just one of many targeted tax giveaways the Senate Finance Committee initially added to the bill. Others include windfall retroactive tax cuts for businesses: taxlawcenter.org/blog/senate-....
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Senate Finance Committee Bill Picks New Winners for Tax Giveaways
The Senate Finance Committee version of the reconciliation bill adds several new tax breaks that are targeted giveaways, often to specific industries, and with no sound policy or economic justificatio...
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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
But instead of cracking down on abusive planning, the Senate tax bill would make the tax break even more generous, at a cost of $17 billion in the first decade (and more over time).
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