Taxes

It’s the end of the year and like so many organizations, CRFB wanted to share with you our top 10 list: a look back at Congress’s 10 top fiscal...

The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) recently released its latest estimate of tax expenditures covering the years 2015-2019. Based on the summed cost...

With debt already around its highest level as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) other than around World War II and estimated to grow with no end...

With the first session of the the 114th Congress rapidly drawing to a close and the big budget issues being settled, we will take a look at how the...

It's no surprise that a deficit-financed tax cut deal costing $830 billion after interest would be bad for the budget. We've been describing the...

Lawmakers have announced a negotiated package of business and individual tax breaks costing about $680 billion over ten years. After interest, we...

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) took to the House floor on Tuesday to assert his opposition to a potential tax extenders deal, citing a recent...

The $700 billion price tag on the rumored deal to permanently extend expired tax breaks might actually be underselling just how expensive the package...

Loren Adler, Research Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post that appeared on the RealClearPolicy blog . It...

Last week Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Angus King (I-ME), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), sent a letter to...

Faced with the possible opposition over a $700 billion deal to extend permanently some of the expiring " tax extenders", Congress may consider a bill...