Taxes
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W&M Tax Bill Would Cost Over $1 Trillion if Made Permanent
The House Ways and Means Committee will soon consider the American Families and Jobs Act, legislation to temporarily extend various business tax...
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Revenue Surge Comes to an End
After surging to a near-record 19.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last fiscal year, revenue has fallen to 17.7 percent of GDP over the past...
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Unpaid-For Tax Cuts Would Be Irresponsible and Hypocritical
According to press reports, the House majority is currently considering a tax cut package that would extend or reverse several business provisions...
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IRS Funding Repeal Could Cost Over $100 Billion, Encourage Tax Cheating
1/9 Update: CBO released a score of the bill, incorporated below. The House is likely to vote today on a bill that would rescind roughly $70 billion...
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End-of-Year Changes Need Offsets
As policymakers continue to negotiate a possible omnibus appropriations bill, there is also discussion of attaching a variety of revenue and mandatory...
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CBO Releases 2022 Budget Options Report
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2023 to 2032 report this week, outlining 76 policy options and...
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Budget Experts Urge Congress: No New Borrowing for Remainder of 2022
Today budget experts from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Concord Coalition, Progressive Policy Institute, and R Street Institute sent...
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Year-End Borrowing Could Worsen Deficits and Inflation
With inflation surging and debt approaching record levels, policymakers should avoid worsening the deficit and should at least pledge to add no new...
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EARN Act Would Cost $80 Billion Without Gimmicks
This analysis is an update to a previous analysis of the Enhancing American Retirement Now Act to account for the introduction of the legislation...
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IRS Releases Updated Tax Gap Analysis
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released an updated analysis of the “ tax gap” – the difference between taxes owed to the federal...
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Year-End 'Extenders' Could Worsen Deficits and Inflation
With inflation surging and debt approaching record levels, policymakers might make the fiscal situation even worse in an end-of-the-year fiscal...
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CBO Scores IRA with $238 Billion of Deficit Reduction
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released a final score of the Inflation Reduction Act, finding it would reduce deficits by $238 billion...