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Ways & Means Hearing on Business Extenders
The House Ways and Means Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday to consider whether to permanently extend the business tax breaks that expired at the...
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Paying For the Tax Extenders
The Senate Finance Committee met yesterday to consider the fate of the 50-plus tax breaks that expired last year known as "tax extenders."...
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Not April Fool's: Senate Democrats Propose Lower Revenues than House Republicans
One of the recurring themes of recent budget debates has been partisan differences over the appropriate level of revenues, with Republicans rejecting...
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What's In and What's Out of the Extenders Bill
Update: Two days later, the Senate Finance Committee amended the legislation to extend nearly all of the provisions that had been allowed to expire...
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Bonus Depreciation Has Cost $220 Billion Since 2008
Last week, we made the case that an expired provision known as bonus depreciation be treated separately from the other tax extenders, both because it...
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Camp Makes More Fiscally Responsible Choices
In a letter to the Ways & Means Committee, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas states that Chairman Dave Camp's tax reform draft made the right choices in...
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Sen. Murray Introduces Tax Cut Bill
Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation yesterday to cut taxes for low- and middle-income workers in a few different...
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The Tax Break-Down: Tax Extenders
This is the sixteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which analyzes and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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Paying the Costs of Bonus Depreciation
In the coming weeks, both the House and Senate are expected to begin discussing what to do with a number of expired tax provisions known as the "tax...
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Camp Makes Responsible Choices on Tax Extenders
While Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) Tax Reform Act of 2014 (TRA) misses a critical opportunity to use tax reform to slow the...
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Correcting Some Misconceptions About the Camp Plan
In the wake of the release of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) tax reform discussion draft, some misconceptions have been...
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How Low Could Debt Go?
We talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...