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Gerald Prante
Senior Economist
prante@taxfoundation.org
Gerald Prante is a senior economist at the Tax Foundation and a Ph.D. student (ABD) in economics at George Mason University. While at the Tax Foundation, Gerald has done work on issues at both the federal and local levels with a special emphasis in data analysis, including microsimulation models and local geographic data. On issues, he specializes in the federal income tax at the federal level and property taxes at the state/local level. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and the New York Post, among others. He has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program, as well as CNBC and numerous radio programs. Gerald holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science, and a master’s degree in economics from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Gerald has also taught economics at Southwestern Illinois College and East Central College. While at the Tax Foundation, he is pursuing a doctorate in economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, specializing in the fields of public finance and industrial organization. He is currently working on his dissertation.
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Recent Media Appearances
- VIdeo: FOX on the Presidential Candidates’ Gas Tax Proposals, April 29, 2008
- Audio: Gerald Prante on Tax Freedom Day (WTAM, Cleveland), April 23, 2008
- Gerald Prante on Tax Freedom Day (BlogTalkRadio), April 23, 2008
- Economist Gerald Prante Discusses AMT on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, December 4, 2007
Contributions
- State-Local Tax Burdens Dip As Income Growth Outpaces Tax Growth, by Gerald Prante, August 7, 2008
- Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data, by Gerald Prante, July 18, 2008
- Assessing Arizona’s State Tax Policy, by Gerald Prante, June 9, 2008
- Obama’s Plan to Abolish the Social Security Wage Ceiling: A State-by-State Breakdown, by Gerald Prante, May 30, 2008
- The Distributional Impact of Windfall Profits Taxes and a Gas Tax Holiday, by Gerald Prante, May 2, 2008
- More Bad Ideas for Housing Tax Credits, by Gerald Prante, April 3, 2008
- An Economic Analysis of Georgia’s Tax Cut Proposals, by Gerald Prante, March 28, 2008
- America Celebrates Tax Freedom Day, by Gerald Prante and Scott A. Hodge, March 26, 2008
- What Is Proper Tax Policy for Smokeless Tobacco Products?, by Gerald Prante, March 26, 2008
- Tax Revenue and Distributional Effects of Lowering 10% Bracket to Zero for 2008, by Gerald Prante and Patrick Fleenor, January 18, 2008
- Hypothetical Examples of Families Affected by the AMT Patch, by Gerald Prante, December 12, 2007
- Tax Foundation Testimony Before the Ways and Means Committee of the Vermont Legislature, by William Ahern and Gerald Prante, December 11, 2007
- A State-by-State Estimate of Individual Income Tax Changes from Rangel’s “Mother of All Reforms” Bill, by Gerald Prante, October 29, 2007
- Rangel’s “Mother of All Tax Reforms” Bill Overshadows Much Bigger Question: What to Do in 2011?, by Gerald Prante, October 26, 2007
- Personalizing the Corporate Income Tax, by Gerald Prante and Scott A. Hodge, October 25, 2007
- Small Problems in 2007 Tax Filing Could Be Huge in 2008, by Gerald Prante and Mark Robyn, October 25, 2007
- Inflation Adjustments for Tax Brackets Will Be Significantly Smaller in 2008 than in 2007, by Gerald Prante, October 8, 2007
- New Census Data Shows Where Property Taxes Hit Homeowners Hardest, by Gerald Prante, September 12, 2007
- New Census Data on Income Gives a Welcome Dose of Fact Checking to “Middle-Class” Rhetoric, by Gerald Prante, September 11, 2007
- Minnesota’s Fiscal Priorities: Too Bad Bridge-Building Isn’t a Sport, by Gerald Prante, September 6, 2007
- Expand But Simplify? Education Credits Under Emanuel-Camp-Bayh, by Gerald Prante, September 5, 2007
- Questions to Ask Before Raising the Federal Gas Tax, by Gerald Prante, August 27, 2007
- Santa Fe Should Not Fatten Budget with Soda Taxes, by Gerald Prante, August 23, 2007
- Increasing Federal Cigarette Taxes Will Hurt State Cigarette Tax Revenues: The Case of a Double Mark-Up, by Gerald Prante, August 7, 2007
- K-12 Spending More Reliant on Federal Government Since No Child Left Behind Act, by Gerald Prante, July 30, 2007
- Most Americans Don’t Itemize on Their Tax Returns, by Gerald Prante, July 23, 2007
- Questions and Answers on the Alternative Minimum Tax, by Gerald Prante, July 21, 2007
- As Presidential Candidates Target Investment Income for Higher Taxes, Which States Stand to Lose the Most?, by Gerald Prante, July 16, 2007
- State Tobacco Tax Rates Have Skyrocketed Since Last Federal Tax Increase, by Curtis S. Dubay and Gerald Prante, July 13, 2007
- Options for Funding SCHIP Expansion: Cigarette Taxes Least Defensible Alternative, by Gerald Prante, July 13, 2007
- What Is 300 Percent of the Poverty Level?, by Gerald Prante, July 11, 2007
- Cigarette Taxes Choke the Poor, by Gerald Prante, July 7, 2007
- A State-by-State Estimate of the Impact of SCHIP Expansion and a 156 Percent Cigarette Tax Hike, by Gerald Prante, June 28, 2007
- A Progressive AMT Fix Without Higher Tax Rates, by Gerald Prante, June 27, 2007
- Comparing Popular Tax Deductions to the Bush Tax Cuts, by Gerald Prante, June 21, 2007
- Generational Equity: Which Age Groups Pay More Tax, and Which Receive More Government Spending?, by Andrew Chamberlain and Gerald Prante, June 1, 2007
- AMT Taxpayers Have Benefited Greatly from Bush Tax Cuts, by Gerald Prante, May 31, 2007
- Questions About Property Tax Reform, by Gerald Prante, May 2, 2007
- Who Will Pay Taxes for Tennessee Governor's "Schools First" Initiative, and Who Will Receive the Spending?, by Andrew Chamberlain and Gerald Prante, April 18, 2007
- Who Pays America's Tax Burden, and Who Gets the Most Government Spending?, by Andrew Chamberlain, Gerald Prante and Scott A. Hodge, March 26, 2007
- Which Taxes Weigh Most Heavily on Americans with Different Incomes?, by Andrew Chamberlain and Gerald Prante, March 26, 2007
- Estimating Federal Tax Burdens for Major City Areas, Counties, and U.S. Congressional Districts, by Gerald Prante and Andrew Chamberlain, March 22, 2007
- Who Pays Taxes and Who Receives Government Spending? An Analysis of Federal, State and Local Tax and Spending Distributions, 1991-2004, by Andrew Chamberlain and Gerald Prante, March 22, 2007
- Putting Taxes on the Map: Federal Tax Burdens by City, County, Congressional District and State, by Gerald Prante and Andrew Chamberlain, March 22, 2007
- Illustration of the President’s Health Care Tax Initiative, by Gerald Prante, January 25, 2007
- President to Propose Large Tax Deduction to Spur Health Insurance Purchases, by Gerald Prante, January 22, 2007
- IRS Data Reveal Which Congressional Districts Pay the Highest Federal Income Taxes, by Gerald Prante, January 17, 2007
- IRS Data Reveal Some Congressional Districts Hit Harder by Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) than Others, by Andrew Chamberlain and Gerald Prante, January 9, 2007
- Cleaning Up The AMT Mess Requires More Than A Quick Fix, by Gerald Prante, January 8, 2007
- Property Tax Collections Surged with Housing Boom, by Gerald Prante, December 1, 2006
- Economics Community Mourns the Loss of Milton Friedman, by Gerald Prante, November 21, 2006
- New IRS Data: Tax Code More Progressive in 2004 than in 2000, by Gerald Prante, October 17, 2006
- Tax Reform: What Has Changed Since 1986?, by Gerald Prante, October 10, 2006
- Increase in Child Tax Credit Sends Families with Many Children off the Tax Rolls, by Gerald Prante, October 10, 2006
- IRS Data Reveal Which States Benefited Most from 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts, by Gerald Prante, October 4, 2006
- What Is Proper Tax Policy for Smokeless Tobacco Products?, by Gerald Prante, September 22, 2006
- New IRS Data Show All Income Groups Have Seen Tax Liabilities Fall Since 2000, by Gerald Prante, September 20, 2006
- Economic vs. Legal Incidence: Comparing Census Bureau Figures with Tax Foundation Tax Burdens, by Gerald Prante and Andrew Chamberlain, June 9, 2006
- Death and Taxes: The Economics of the Federal Estate Tax, by Andrew Chamberlain, Gerald Prante and Patrick Fleenor, June 2, 2006
- Growing Amount of Business Income Taxed by the Individual Income Tax Code, by Gerald Prante and Jonathan Williams, May 8, 2006
- Majority of Taxpayers Affected by AMT Also Claim Capital Gains or Dividend Income, by Gerald Prante, February 26, 2006
- The Importance of Dividend Income for Low-Income Seniors, by Gerald Prante, February 8, 2006
- Who Benefits from the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction?, by Gerald Prante, February 6, 2006
- Lottery Taxes Divert Income from Retirement Savings, by Alicia Hansen and Gerald Prante, January 19, 2006
