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Senator Levin Presents Ideas for Sequester Replacement
Read moreLast week, Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced legislation that would increase taxes on multinational companies, and suggested that the revenue...
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Senator Mike Lee Introduces Tax Reform Plan
Read moreOn Tuesday, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) presented his Family Fairness and Opportunity Tax Reform Act, which will be introduced in the coming days. Senator...
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The Tax Break-Down: Section 199, the Domestic Production Activities Deduction
Read moreThis is the fifth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last...
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Tax Policy Center: Fewer Americans Pay No Federal Income Tax
Read moreOne area of controversy in the last election was the percentage of American households that pay no federal income tax, often cited as 47 percent. The...
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Tax Reform Targets Corporate Breaks
Read moreThe 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: Preferential Rates on Capital Gains
Read moreThis 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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An Example of Reforming Beyond Tax Expenditures: Executive Compensation
Read moreBefore 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
Read moreJohn 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
Read moreAs 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
Read moreUpdate: 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
Read moreUpdated 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"
Read moreThe 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...