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Tax Policy Center is a nonpartisan research site from Brookings and Urban Institute that analyzes U.S. tax policy, its budget impact, and distributional effects. It provides policy briefs, data, interactive tools, and expert analyses on federal and state taxes, reform proposals, and tax expenditures.
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