Taxes
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Tax Day 2017: Charts to Explain Our Tax System
To commemorate Tax Day, CRFB and our partners at Fix the Debt have released our annual chartbook on federal taxes. It outlines who pays taxes, what...
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You Can't Pay for Tax Reform with Health Reform
In an interview yesterday on the Fox Business Network, President Trump described how it is better to do health care reform before tax reform because...
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Does AHCA Make Tax Reform Easier?
Much of the news coverage on the interplay between health care and tax reform claims the failure to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA) makes tax...
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JCT Estimates Record $1.6 Trillion in Tax Breaks in 2017
The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released a new estimate earlier this year for the cost of tax expenditures over the years 2016-2020. In total...
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AHCA Manager's Amendments Will Likely Cut Deficit Reduction in Half
The House Rules Committee released two manager's amendments to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday evening in advance of their scheduled...
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Gene Steuerle: Before We Reform Tax Policy, We Need to Know What Is Working
Congress and President Trump are embarking on what is likely to be a major rewrite of the federal income tax code.
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Options to Replace the ACA Cadillac Tax
As policymakers debate repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), disagreement remains over how to address the ACA's "...
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Five Reasons to Pay for Tax Reform
An executive summary of this paper is available here. An updated version of this paper is available at Tax Reform Should Not Add to the Debt – Here's...
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Budget Will Be Difficult to Balance Without ACA Savings
For the past three years, Republicans have proposed budgets with a goal of achieving balance within the next decade. However, that goal will be much...
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Lowering the Bar for "Revenue Neutral" Tax Reform
One of the key questions of comprehensive tax reform will be its budgetary target. Congressional leaders have set a revenue-neutral target, raising as...
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Can Delaney Provide a Bipartisan Way Forward for Infrastructure and Tax Reform?
As discussions about President-elect Trump's first 100 days agenda continue, Representative John Delaney (D-MD) is suggesting that a bill he proposed...
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CBO Releases 2016 Budget Options
The Congressional Budget Office released a report Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2017 to 2026, with 115 budget options that either increase...