Taxes

While explaining why deficits have fallen from their historically large peak in 2009, we noted the main source of this tumble is a 43 percent rise in...

Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...

Despite partisan differences in Washington, there's actually considerable bipartisan consensus around many elements of tax reform. That's the...

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew proposed administrative rules this week that would limit the benefits of tax inversions, where companies move their...

A new paper suggests that tax cuts that add to the deficit provide little boost to economic growth and may actually hinder it. Last week, the Tax...

Retirement saving policy took center stage Tuesday on Capitol Hill and in the policy world. The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to discuss...

Earlier in the week, we highlighted a portion of CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation at Cornell University highlighting the increased resources...

House Republicans plan to vote this week on a jobs package combining bills that would "build a robust economy and foster job creation." While...

Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) have introduced legislation that would reduce the benefits to companies that choose to "invert,"...

Tax breaks for homeowners are one of the largest categories of tax breaks offered by the federal government. A new report by the Corporation for...

With the economy recovering slower than originally anticipated, the government now expects to collect significantly less revenue this decade than it...