Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 2/22/2019: Congress passed full appropriations for the remaining seven appropriations bills for the rest of fiscal year 2019, and the...
Taxes
Tyler Evilsizer: Putting the Trump Tax Cuts Will Pay For Themselves Myth To Bed
Tyler Evilsizer is deputy policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for...
Leave Tax Extenders in the Past
Some in Congress reportedly want to revive a package of narrow tax breaks that expired 14 months ago, at the end of 2017, known as “tax extenders.”...
House to Vote on $100 Billion Lame Duck Tax Package
The House will likely consider a package of lame duck tax cuts costing almost $100 billion over ten years. About half of the cost comes from...
Joint Letter: End the Tax Extenders Once And For All
Below is a joint letter to Congressional leadership and the heads of the taxwriting committees that it is time to end the practice of enacting...
Beware the Budget Busters in the Lame Duck
The lame duck Congress will return to Washington with an important to-do list that includes either finishing the seven unfinished appropriation bills...
The Tax Bill Did Not Cause Revenue to Rise
A common misleading claim this fall has been that tax revenues have increased, even with the large tax cuts enacted last year. While it is...
Further Tax Cuts Would Be Irresponsible
For Immediate Release
Recently, President Trump called for a new 10 percent middle class tax cut, which news reports suggest Congress is working to...
JCT: Tax Cuts 2.0 Would Slow Long-Term Economic Growth
The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has released an official dynamic score of "Tax Reform 2.0" – a bill permanently extending last December's tax...
No, Really, Tax Revenue Has Not Risen
Update: After the end of the fiscal year, we published an updated version of this piece with final numbers from the Treasury Department.
At the...