Taxes
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Tax Break-Downs Updated
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its budget options paper, a biannual report that provides over 100 suggestions of specific things...
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The King Plan: A Window Into a "Go Medium" Deal
In addition to CBO director Doug Elmendorf's testimony, yesterday's budget conference committee meeting produced another notable moment: a proposal...
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CEPR Proposes a Financial Transaction Fee for Sequester Offset
What to do about sequestration remains one of the most important questions before the budget conference, and while replacing at least part of the...
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The Senate Democrats' List of Tax Breaks to Axe
It has been one week since the budget conference committee's first meeting, and many are speculating that the committee could realistically come up...
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The Tax Break-Down: The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
This is the fourteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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The Tax Break-Down: the FICA Tip Credit
This is the thirteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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The Tax Break-Down: Foreign Earned Income Exclusion
This is the twelfth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last...
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Citizens for Tax Justice Releases Tax Reform Plan
Citizens for Tax Justice has released a new tax reform plan which eliminates some tax breaks and uses some of the revenue to cut the top rate and...
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The 1986 Tax Reform Act Turns 27
On this day 27 years ago, President Ronald Reagan signed into the law the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which stands as the last major overhaul of the US...
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The Tax Break-Down: Intangible Drilling Costs
This is the eleventh post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Our...
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Kent Conrad: A Way Out Possible
The government is still shut down, and the debt ceiling is looming around the corner. Markets are beginning to worry, and the country is facing its...
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The Tax Break-Down: American Opportunity Tax Credit
This is the tenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last...