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Tax Reform Targets Corporate Breaks
The broad outlines of tax reform have always been clear. Lawmakers trim or eliminate certain tax expenditures and use some or all of the additional...
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The Tax Break-Down: Child Tax Credit
This is the fourth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. The...
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The Tax Break-Down: Preferential Rates on Capital Gains
This is the third post in a new CRFB 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: LIFO Accounting
This is the second post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which discusses tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last-in...
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The Tax Break-Down: The State and Local Tax Deduction
This is the first post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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Introducing "The Tax Break-Down"
We've written many times before about the $1.3 trillion of tax breaks currently littering the code, urging policymakers to focus on paring back tax...
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An Example of Reforming Beyond Tax Expenditures: Executive Compensation
Before leaving for August recess, Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced S. 1476, which would end the ability of...
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Tax Reform on the Daily Show
John Oliver, interim host of The Daily Show with John Stewart, opened last night's program with an update on tax reform. The segment is hilarious, but...
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Weinstein: Make Taxes Simple
As Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) continue their cross-country tax reform...
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Tax Reform is Really Hard But Worth The Effort
Update: The Tax Policy Center has released a distributional analysis of the reducing the top individual and corporate rates to 25 percent and...
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Opening the Tax Reform Vault
Updated 8/2/2013: Newly released submissions to the Finance Committee have been added. The deadline for Senators to make their arguments for what tax...
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On the President's Proposed "Grand Bargain"
The talk of the town in recent days has been President Obama's new plan to combine corporate tax reform with public investments in what President...