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Senate Finance Committee Looks at Economic Security Provisions
Last week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive...
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CBO Releases Analysis of the Distributional Impact of Tax Expenditures
The CBO released a paper today analyzing the distributional impact of major tax expenditures on the individual side of the tax code. Considering the...
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Tyson on Retirement Savings and Tax Provisions
Today, in a Project Syndicate piece, Laura Tyson examines the state of retirement saving in the U.S. and argues that many retirement saving tax...
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CBO Looks at a Carbon Tax
The revenue debate in DC is one that is often focused on the individual income tax system. But one option to raise revenue is to use new taxes that...
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Going Abroad: Senate Finance's International Tax Options Paper
Conveniently, the same day that House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee chairs Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) published a...
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Op-Ed: A Bipartisan Case for Chained CPI
The Hill | May 9, 2013 Over the last few days, politically driven critics have called on the president to abandon his support for changing the way the...
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Tax Writers Assemble!
With tax reform growing as a topic of discussion in DC, the two leaders of the tax-writing committees in the House and Senate -- Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI)...
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The Challenge of Corporate Tax Reform
Tax reform has many moving pieces to it and many questions that need to be answered. One question is whether the two pieces should be handled together...
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JCT Hands Out Programs for the Tax Reform Debate
As work on tax reform gets going, the Joint Committee on Taxation has provided a 568-page report laying out just about everything you need to know...
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The Real Corporate Tax Game
A recent article in The New York Times entitled " The Corporate Tax Game" details the tricky politics of corporate tax reform, especially when it...
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Op-Ed: Measuring Inflation Right is Both Fair and Accurate
The Hill | April 30, 2013 In his recent blog entry on chained CPI ( Chained CPI: Unfair and inaccurate, April 26th), AARP President Robert Romasco...
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Tax Reform in A Bipartisan Path Forward
Recent reports from Capitol Hill show momentum for tax reform is building. Both the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees have been...