Tax Expenditures

House GOP Budget Unveiled – On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal, titled “The...

In a reprise of last year, Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) recently reintroduced his bill to create a more transparent budget regime and reform the...

Today, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Dan Coats (R-IN) introduced bipartisan legislation to comprehensively reform the existing U.S. tax system in a...

Cleaning out the House – Spring is often associated with housecleaning. Congress is long due to clear out the FY 2011 budget seeing as we are now half...

If the current budget drama in Washington ever becomes the stuff of a feature film--yes, a real stretch, but we've seen worse from Hollywood--maybe it...

In this installment of our Spotlight on the States blog series, focused on Minnesota, we take a slightly different look at the state's fiscal...

Brackets – As many busy themselves today going over the brackets for the big tourney, picking the next Cinderella and who will win it all, the real...

Updated : Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), formerly of the President's Fiscal Commission, has introduced similar legislation in the House. Sen...

Today the House Budget Committee convened a hearing on the burden of mounting national debt on the country and how to address it. The committee heard...

In a recent analysis of the second largest tax expenditure in the tax code--the mortgage interest deduction--the Tax Policy Center finds that most...

Today, the Senate Finance Committee had its first in a series of hearings for the coming year about reforming our tax code. Senate Finance Committee...

The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on tax reform this morning, featuring testimony from four witnesses who all unequivocally called for...