Tax Extenders

Recent press articles report that policymakers are negotiating a deal to accompany a temporary restoration of most of the 55 expired tax extenders...

Policymakers are considering using the lame duck session to substantially worsen the nation's budget. A commonly discussed package would add...

Congress and the President need to prep for some important upcoming fiscal moments, and CRFB has a plan to help them do just that. The Paying for...

Two of the biggest items among the tax extenders that Congress may consider before the end of the year are two provisions that allow accelerated write...

With the 2014 midterm elections mostly in the books, the current Congress will return from weeks of campaigning to finish some remaining items before...

As soon as the election is over, the lame duck Congress will be pressed to deal with several pieces of must-pass legislation before the end of the...

Republicans and Democrats do not agree on much, but both parties are talking about business tax reform that is "revenue-neutral," raising the same...

While explaining why deficits have fallen from their historically large peak in 2009, we noted the main source of this tumble is a 43 percent rise in...

Many policymakers have expressed concern about "tax inversions," transactions where American companies move their headquarters overseas in order to...

Both the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) office have released new reports on a tax credit that rewards banks...

Budget rules require new policies to be paid for with savings elsewhere in the budget. Policymakers must balance the new policy against the choices...

The House passed legislation today to expand and make permanent the bonus depreciation rules that expired at the end of last year. A key argument for...