Taxes
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CBO Looks at a Carbon Tax
The revenue debate in DC is one that is often focused on the individual income tax system. But one option to raise revenue is to use new taxes that...
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Going Abroad: Senate Finance's International Tax Options Paper
Conveniently, the same day that House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee chairs Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) published a...
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Tax Writers Assemble!
With tax reform growing as a topic of discussion in DC, the two leaders of the tax-writing committees in the House and Senate -- Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI)...
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JCT Hands Out Programs for the Tax Reform Debate
As work on tax reform gets going, the Joint Committee on Taxation has provided a 568-page report laying out just about everything you need to know...
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The Real Corporate Tax Game
A recent article in The New York Times entitled " The Corporate Tax Game" details the tricky politics of corporate tax reform, especially when it...
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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...