Taxes
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Tax Reform in A Bipartisan Path Forward
Recent reports from Capitol Hill show momentum for tax reform is building. Both the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees have been...
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Revenue Provisions in the President's Budget
For the first time in a few days, Tax Day did actually fall on April 15, so hopefully the tax procrastinators out there were able to get their filing...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas April 15 2013
It's Tax Day, meaning that those who procrastinated spent their weekends trying to work through our overly-complex tax code. The federal code contains...
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Camp and Baucus: Tax Reform is Alive and Well
Getting Congress to take on tax reform will be difficult, but the two lawmakers in charge of the tax-writing committees seem to be committed to...
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RATE Coalition Urges a More Competitive Tax Code
Today, the RATE Coalition sent a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees, urging them to...
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A "Dynamic" Amendment to the Senate Budget
Among the many amendments that were voted on to the Senate budget resolution, one caught the eye of POLITICO: Sen. Rob Portman's (R-OH) amendment to...
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Examining the Domestic Production Activities Deduction
It is well known that the corporate tax code is littered with tax provisions that cost the government revenue. Today, the U.S. has the highest top...
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Chairman Camp Eyes State and Local Tax Deduction
Yesterday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) took a hard look at the deduction for state and local income taxes at a hearing on...
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Spending and Revenue in the Ryan Budget
Earlier today, Chairman Ryan released his FY 2014 budget, proposing a number of bold changes that would put debt on a downward path as a share of the...
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Revisiting the Distribution of Tax Expenditures
Tax expenditures are a frequent subject of this blog, as they are less visible than government spending due to the tax code's great complexity. But...
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Brookings Rethinks...New Revenue Sources
Throughout the week we have been breaking down the new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, " 15 Ways to Rethink the Federal...
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House Ways and Means Committee Presses Forward
The Hill is reporting that the House Ways and Means Committee will take the next step in creating a broad tax reform plan by announcing 11 separate...