Nikhita Airi

Tax Provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), as Posted by the House Rules Committee on May 19, 2025

NEW: TPC has scored the May 19 House Rules Committee OBBBA tax plan. tpc.io/4klTnVi

FYI @margothollick.bsky.social makes the coolest charts. The analysis of how the benefits of expiring TCJA provisions break down? Also cool! tpc.io/3BrvZ8f

State Economic Monitor Track and analyze economic and fiscal trends at the state level.

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From Tax Policy Center: Conversations about federal employees affected by shutdowns usually focus on Washington, DC, but impacts could be felt across all fifty states. Fed jobs have grown fastest in DE, ID, and NC taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/gover...

T24-0082 - Distribution of Tax Units, Children, and Dependents by Size of Child Tax Credit (CTC), 2025 Counts of tax units, children, and dependents eligible for the child tax credit (CTC) distributed by size of CTC in 2025.

Full set of estimates here: taxpolicycenter.org/model-estima...

17 Million Children In Low-Income Families Will Not Receive The Full Child Tax Credit In 2025 In 2025, the Tax Policy Center estimates that 17 million children under the age of 17—or one in four—will receive less than the full value of the Child Tax Credit because their parents earn too little...

New from TPC: 17 Million Children In Low-Income Families Will Not Receive The Full Child Tax Credit In 2025 taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/17-mi...

More TPC analysis on the 2017 tax law/TCJA here: taxpolicycenter.org/feature/reas...

interesting....compare to other states' limitations on local sales taxes from Pew www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

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Lastly, cross-posting terrific and timely work from TPC colleagues on the impacts of Trump's proposed tariffs on different US states - states in the Midwest and South would be hit hardest: t.co/5oPOJJtFZh

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Was thrilled to have work analyzing distributional consequences of alternative designs of the Child Tax Credit included in the ANNALS volume on the 2021 expansion of the Child Tax Credit journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/710/1

Waffle chart showing number of tax returns receiving the childless Earned Income Tax Credit in 2019 and 2021, by age group. 2019, 19-24 year olds: none. 2019, 25-64 year olds: 7.4 million. 2019, 65 years and older: none. 2021, 19-24 year olds: 4.3 million. 2021, 25-64 year olds: 9.2 million. 2021, 65 years and older: 1.6 million. Tax Policy Center analysis of data from Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income.

Recently analyzed the 2021 expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for childless workers. Young workers — historically excluded from the social safety net — benefitted most. tpc.io/3C0cNOD

Hi guys! I am a researcher at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center with focuses on refundable credits (child tax credit, earned income tax credit), cash assistance, state and local finance, and making better data science/data vis tools for public policy analysis