Tax Expenditures

According to press reports today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are about to take a very...

The United States has the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the developed world, but substantial revenues are forgone through a variety of tax...

Tax expenditures in theory promote specific policy goals by subsidizing that behavior through tax benefits. However, in comprehensive tax reform...

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive...

The CBO released a paper today analyzing the distributional impact of major tax expenditures on the individual side of the tax code. Considering the...

Today, in a Project Syndicate piece, Laura Tyson examines the state of retirement saving in the U.S. and argues that many retirement saving tax...

Tax reform has many moving pieces to it and many questions that need to be answered. One question is whether the two pieces should be handled together...

A recent article in The New York Times entitled " The Corporate Tax Game" details the tricky politics of corporate tax reform, especially when it...

Recent reports from Capitol Hill show momentum for tax reform is building. Both the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees have been...

For the first time in a few days, Tax Day did actually fall on April 15, so hopefully the tax procrastinators out there were able to get their filing...

It's Tax Day, meaning that those who procrastinated spent their weekends trying to work through our overly-complex tax code. The federal code contains...

Getting Congress to take on tax reform will be difficult, but the two lawmakers in charge of the tax-writing committees seem to be committed to...