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Tax Break-Downs Updated
Read moreYesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its budget options paper, a biannual report that provides over 100 suggestions of specific things...
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The King Plan: A Window Into a "Go Medium" Deal
Read moreIn addition to CBO director Doug Elmendorf's testimony, yesterday's budget conference committee meeting produced another notable moment: a proposal...
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CEPR Proposes a Financial Transaction Fee for Sequester Offset
Read moreWhat to do about sequestration remains one of the most important questions before the budget conference, and while replacing at least part of the...
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The Senate Democrats' List of Tax Breaks to Axe
Read moreIt has been one week since the budget conference committee's first meeting, and many are speculating that the committee could realistically come up...
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The Tax Break-Down: The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
Read moreThis is the fourteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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The Tax Break-Down: the FICA Tip Credit
Read moreThis is the thirteenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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The Tax Break-Down: Foreign Earned Income Exclusion
Read moreThis is the twelfth 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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Citizens for Tax Justice Releases Tax Reform Plan
Read moreCitizens for Tax Justice has released a new tax reform plan which eliminates some tax breaks and uses some of the revenue to cut the top rate and...
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The 1986 Tax Reform Act Turns 27
Read moreOn this day 27 years ago, President Ronald Reagan signed into the law the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which stands as the last major overhaul of the US...
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The Tax Break-Down: Intangible Drilling Costs
Read moreThis is the eleventh post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Our...
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Kent Conrad: A Way Out Possible
Read moreThe government is still shut down, and the debt ceiling is looming around the corner. Markets are beginning to worry, and the country is facing its...
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The Tax Break-Down: American Opportunity Tax Credit
Read moreThis is the tenth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last...