Taxes
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Tax Day 2017: Charts to Explain Our Tax System
Read moreTo commemorate Tax Day, CRFB and our partners at Fix the Debt have released our annual chartbook on federal taxes. It outlines who pays taxes, what...
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Tax Day is a Reminder of the Need for Comprehensive Tax Reform
Read moreFor Immediate Release In light of today’s deadline for filing federal income tax returns, Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a...
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Where Tax Dollars Went Last Year
Read moreIn honor of Tax Day tomorrow, we've published our annual Taxpayer Receipt, which gives a line-by-line breakdown of where tax dollars go. For example...
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You Can't Pay for Tax Reform with Health Reform
Read moreIn an interview yesterday on the Fox Business Network, President Trump described how it is better to do health care reform before tax reform because...
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Senator Flake Releases "Tax Rackets" Oversight Report
Read moreWith Tax Day approaching on April 18 and Congress considering tax reform, Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has released an oversight report, Tax Rackets...
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Does AHCA Make Tax Reform Easier?
Read moreMuch of the news coverage on the interplay between health care and tax reform claims the failure to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA) makes tax...
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JCT Estimates Record $1.6 Trillion in Tax Breaks in 2017
Read moreThe Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released a new estimate earlier this year for the cost of tax expenditures over the years 2016-2020. In total...
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House ACA Replacement Would Accelerate Medicare Insolvency
Read moreEarlier this year, we released three principles for responsible "Obamacare" Repeal and Replace. I
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How Much Does the House GOP Tax Plan Cost?
Read moreThe tax reform conversation so far has mostly focused on House Republicans' "Better Way" Blueprint released last summer (we explain the plan in detail...
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JCT: ACA Repeal Will Cut Taxes by At Least $600 Billion
Read moreIn light of the House GOP releasing their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), the Joint Committee on Taxation...
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Gene Steuerle: Before We Reform Tax Policy, We Need to Know What Is Working
Read moreCongress and President Trump are embarking on what is likely to be a major rewrite of the federal income tax code.
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Options to Replace the ACA Cadillac Tax
Read moreAs policymakers debate repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), disagreement remains over how to address the ACA's "...