Taxes

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...

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Coverage of the so-called "chained CPI" has been heating up recently, due to rumors that it might be included in the latest round of debt negotiations...

While much of the conversation on tax increases in a debt ceiling budget deal has seemed to focus on corporate jet owners, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)...

More Fireworks in Store – Washington, DC celebrated Independence Day on Monday night with its annual fireworks display on the National Mall. Though...

Yesterday the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study on the complexity of the federal tax code at a Senate Finance Committee hearing...

The bicameral, bipartisan debt limit and deficit reduction negotiations chaired by Vice President Biden resumed today with the group’s fifth meeting...

For today's 10-year anniversary of the 2001 tax cuts (EGTRRA), CRFB issued a release this morning calling for any extensions of the 2001/2003/2010 tax...

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Though recent discussion about "spending in the tax code" has brought fresh attention to tax expenditures, much of the discussion has been about how...

It seems like we are having Social Security deja vu. Just a couple weeks ago, we basically repeated our response from last September to those who...