Tax Expenditures

This week, in our blog series on the President's budget, we have talked about the overall numbers in the President's budget and the amount of savings...

Baseline Instinct – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday released its much-awaited 2012 Budget and Economic Outlook. According to CBO, if...

The good folks at the Tax Policy Center have written yet another enlightening report on tax expenditures. This one, titled, " Curbing Tax Expenditures...

Remember when we said last November that Congress had a lot to do by the end of the year? Well, they took care of FY 2012 appropriations, but...

Both parties are studying cuts in tax expenditures (TEs) as a means to reduce the federal deficit. Super Committee Republicans have offered a proposal...

As policymakers look to "Go Smart" in putting together a deficit reduction package, there is no better place to look than tax reform; and in...

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 turned 25 on Saturday, prompting a number of commentators to write their perspective on the reform. We will highlight three...

Yesterday, a group of 14 Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Super Committee, urging them to eliminate oil subsidies for the top five oil companies...

It's no secret that taxes will be a central element in national politics over the next fourteen months leading up to the Presidential election. With...

Tax Policy Center has two sets of interesting tables that have just come out in the past few days. They offer some great information for those of you...

Update: Howard Gleckman of Tax Policy Center has blogged on their paper over at TaxVox. With the chaos of the debt ceiling now over, it's time to take...

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