Taxes

The recent announcement from Senators Baucus and Hatch to pursue tax reform via a "blank slate" approach is incredibly encouraging. As CRFB Board...

Yesterday, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) and Representative Dave Camp (R-MI) kicked off their summer tour of the country in order to bring the tax reform...

As we begin to enter the dog days of summer, the weather is not the only thing that is heating up. The tax reform debate is beginning to escalate also...

The lead up to July 4th brought an exciting development in fiscal policy discussions: a commitment from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus...

As the tax reform debate begins to heat up again, a new report released by the General Accountability Office (GAO) contributes some telling...

Among developed countries the US is unique in taxes in a number of different ways. One claim to fame is the fact that the U.S. now has the highest...

In 2010 and 2011, the federal government "spent" nearly $50 billion in revenue on energy tax expenditures. But are these provisions actually achieving...

According to press reports today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are about to take a very...

The United States has the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the developed world, but substantial revenues are forgone through a variety of tax...

The Senate Finance Committee has been busy churning out options papers on various tax reform topics (we wrote previously about their economic security...

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive...

Today, in a Project Syndicate piece, Laura Tyson examines the state of retirement saving in the U.S. and argues that many retirement saving tax...