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Tax Reform Targets Corporate Breaks
The broad outlines of tax reform have always been clear. Lawmakers trim or eliminate certain tax expenditures and use some or all of the additional...
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The Tax Break-Down: Preferential Rates on Capital Gains
This is the third post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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An Example of Reforming Beyond Tax Expenditures: Executive Compensation
Before leaving for August recess, Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced S. 1476, which would end the ability of...
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Tax Reform on the Daily Show
John Oliver, interim host of The Daily Show with John Stewart, opened last night's program with an update on tax reform. The segment is hilarious, but...
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Weinstein: Make Taxes Simple
As Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) continue their cross-country tax reform...
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Tax Reform is Really Hard But Worth The Effort
Update: The Tax Policy Center has released a distributional analysis of the reducing the top individual and corporate rates to 25 percent and...
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Opening the Tax Reform Vault
Updated 8/2/2013: Newly released submissions to the Finance Committee have been added. The deadline for Senators to make their arguments for what tax...
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On the President's Proposed "Grand Bargain"
The talk of the town in recent days has been President Obama's new plan to combine corporate tax reform with public investments in what President...
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Weinstein: Simplification Should Be First Priority of Tax Reform
The tax reform debate is heating up and many groups are weighing in on what tax provisions should be kept and what the broad revenue and...
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Broadening Base-Broadening: "Beyond Tax Expenditures"
Readers of The Bottom Line know that we talk frequently on the subject of tax expenditures, the deductions, credits, and other tax preferences which...
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Making the Case for Fundamental Tax Reform
Today, the Campaign to Fix the Debt released a memo making the case for the “ blank slate” approach to tax reform proposed by Senate Finance Chairman...
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Retargeting Tax Expenditures
As Senator Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-MI) continue to work through tax reform using their "blank slate"...