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President's Budget Update: Insourcing
The most recent focus of President Obama's initiatives has been on "insourcing," or providing incentives to companies to bring jobs back to the US...
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The Case for Tax Reform: Reducing the IRS's Administrative Burden and the Tax Gap
The Internal Revenue Service report on the 2006 tax gap, showing $385 billion (about 15 percent) of missing revenue, has made its rounds, sparking...
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The 'Coke Zero Plan' for Tax Reform?
Readers of this blog will be familiar with the Zero Plan from the Fiscal Commission's tax reform effort. An article in the newest issue of Health...
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Another Candidate Score From Tax Policy Center
In evaluating the impact of Republican candidates' tax plans, Tax Policy Center has been an invaluable resource. After having scored Newt Gingrich's...
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Tax Policy Center Estimates Newt Gingrich's Tax Plan
A few days ago, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) came out with a distributional and revenue score for Newt Gingrich's tax plan. It is similar to Rick Perry...
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Paying for the Extenders
With so many provisions set to expire at the end of the year, CRFB has released a new paper that details what lawmakers have to extend and how they...
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Questions for the Candidates
This Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, the Republican presidential candidates will debate for one of the last times before the Iowa caucuses on January 3...
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Another Proposal to Extend the Payroll Tax Cut and Other Policies
Finding a way to extend the payroll tax cut, along with the many other expiring provisions this year, continues to be a dominating issue for Congress...
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Spotlight on the States: Internet Sales Tax
Breaking from traditional posts in our Spotlight on the States series, this blog focuses not on one state's budget, but on an issue that directly...
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Senate Working to Extend Payroll Tax Cut
Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled another proposal for how to both extend and expand the payroll tax cuts and pay for them...
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Paying for Any Payroll Tax Cuts
Later this week, Senate majority leader Harry Reid is expected to hold a vote on the two largest components of President Obama’s jobs bill, totaling...
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Sen. Portman to Propose Corporate Tax Reform Early Next Year
At an American Enterprise Institute event yesterday, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that he will unveil a plan to reform the corporate tax code in...