Tax Expenditures

It is well known that the corporate tax code is littered with tax provisions that cost the government revenue. Today, the U.S. has the highest top...

Yesterday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) took a hard look at the deduction for state and local income taxes at a hearing on...

Tax expenditures are a frequent subject of this blog, as they are less visible than government spending due to the tax code's great complexity. But...

Tax expenditures have been a hot topic lately as a way to raise additional revenue for a deficit reduction plan that could replace sequestration...

One of the lesser known provisions of the American Taxpayer Relief Act is the extension of the refundable American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC)...

Update: The link to the JCT report has been fixed. Today, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released their annual estimate of each individual and...

Yesterday, CBO issued a report on refundable tax credits, examining many issues involved with the credits. The first refundable credit, the Earned...

The complexity of our tax code has many advocates making the case for tax reform as we head toward the second round of fiscal negotiations. In a...

Yesterday, CBO put out a new report on the system for taxing U.S. multinational corporations, a somewhat complex but important topic when it comes to...

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has released a new list of ten wasteful tax expenditures, totaling $130 billion over the next ten years. Whether it is tax...

Urban Institute scholar and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle writes in his blog The Government We Deserve that the current revenue proposals from both...

Yesterday, the Fix the Debt Campaign had a event with two roundtables bringing together many health policy and tax experts from across the political...