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Seth Hanlon is a senior fellow at American Progress, where he focuses on federal tax and budget policy.
Prior to rejoining American Progress, he served as special assistant to the president for economic policy at the White House National Economic Council, where he coordinated the Obama administration’s tax policy. He has also served as senior tax counsel for the House Budget Committee Democratic staff under former ranking member Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and as tax counsel for Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), a senior Finance Committee member, among other Capitol Hill roles. He was the Director of Fiscal Reform during a prior stint at American Progress and an associate attorney at Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered.
Hanlon has testified before Congress, and his work has been cited in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other publications. He has been featured in CNBC, NPR, C-SPAN and other outlets to discuss tax issues.
Hanlon received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Cash benefits and tax cuts provided through the ARPA will help lay the groundwork for a rapid economic recovery.
A repeal of the Affordable Care Act through the courts would be a massive transfer of money from low- and moderate-income Americans to high-income Americans.
Congress should close—not expand—capital gains loopholes and tax income from wealth the same as income from work.
The Trump administration failed to deliver on its promise to make child care more affordable.
The 2017 tax law gave bigger tax cuts to foreign investors than middle- and working-class Americans in all of the states Trump carried in 2016.
Permanently terminating the employee payroll tax along the lines President Trump has proposed would empty Social Security’s trust fund by 2026 or earlier.
New reports illustrate the toll that IRS budget cuts have taken on tax enforcement.
Corporate and payroll tax cuts are exceptionally poor solutions to the crisis at hand.
Direct emergency payments are far superior compared to payroll tax cuts.
Weakened tax enforcement rigs the economy against workers and honest taxpayers.
