Taxes

Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced the Progressive Consumption Tax Act last week that would reform the tax code and change the way that tax revenue...

Tax reform has been an increasingly common way to pay for infrastructure spending in recent years. Both President Obama and outgoing House Ways and...

Senator Coburn's office yesterday published the "Tax Decoder", a 300+ page guide describing more than 165 tax expenditures. The report highlights...

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

Despite partisan differences in Washington, there's actually considerable bipartisan consensus around many elements of tax reform. That's the...

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew proposed administrative rules this week that would limit the benefits of tax inversions, where companies move their...

A new paper suggests that tax cuts that add to the deficit provide little boost to economic growth and may actually hinder it. Last week, the Tax...

Earlier in the week, we highlighted a portion of CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation at Cornell University highlighting the increased resources...

House Republicans plan to vote this week on a jobs package combining bills that would "build a robust economy and foster job creation." While...

Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) have introduced legislation that would reduce the benefits to companies that choose to "invert,"...

With the economy recovering slower than originally anticipated, the government now expects to collect significantly less revenue this decade than it...

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