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American Public Supports Fiscally Responsible Corporate Tax Reform
Read moreAmong developed countries the US is unique in taxes in a number of different ways. One claim to fame is the fact that the U.S. now has the highest... -
Are Energy Tax Expenditures Effective at Reducing Emissions?
Read moreIn 2010 and 2011, the federal government "spent" nearly $50 billion in revenue on energy tax expenditures. But are these provisions actually achieving... -
The Zero Plan Re-Emerges in the Tax Reform Debate
Read moreAccording to press reports today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are about to take a very... -
RATE Coalition Speaks Out For Corporate Tax Reform
Read moreThe United States has the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the developed world, but substantial revenues are forgone through a variety of tax... -
Senate Finance Looks at Types of Income and Entities
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee has been busy churning out options papers on various tax reform topics (we wrote previously about their economic security... -
Senate Finance Committee Looks at Economic Security Provisions
Read moreLast week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive... -
Tyson on Retirement Savings and Tax Provisions
Read moreToday, in a Project Syndicate piece, Laura Tyson examines the state of retirement saving in the U.S. and argues that many retirement saving tax... -
CBO Looks at a Carbon Tax
Read moreThe 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... -
Going Abroad: Senate Finance's International Tax Options Paper
Read moreConveniently, 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... -
Tax Writers Assemble!
Read moreWith 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)... -
JCT Hands Out Programs for the Tax Reform Debate
Read moreAs 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... -
The Real Corporate Tax Game
Read moreA recent article in The New York Times entitled " The Corporate Tax Game" details the tricky politics of corporate tax reform, especially when it...