Tax Foundation Staff

Taylor Cazy

Taylor Cazy is a 2023 summer intern with the Tax Foundation’s Center for Federal Tax Policy.

Latest Work

Distribution of major US individual income tax credits on IRS tax form 1040
Data

Summary of the Tax Credits Claimed on the Form 1040, Tax Year 2020

In tax year 2020, taxpayers claimed more than 159 million tax credits on their individual income tax returns worth a total of more than $277 billion. That was an increase of $35.3 billion from tax year 2019, largely due to an influx of pandemic relief administered through the tax code in 2020.

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IRS budget increase IRS technology modernization and IRS funding for IRS e-filing electronic tax filing
Blog

The U.S. Tax Code Is Too Complex for Direct eFile to Work

It is hard to imagine the IRS Direct e-File Program operating seamlessly with the complexity of the current U.S. tax system. Instead, lawmakers should first address the more fundamental problem that causes taxpayer frustration: our highly complicated tax code.

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