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Event Recap – 2025: The Fiscal Challenges Ahead
Read moreOn Tuesday, December 10, 2024, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted more than 130 people at an in-person event, " 2025: The Fiscal...
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TCJA Extension Might Not Pay for Any of Itself
Read moreNew data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that economic feedback may not cover any of the revenue loss and that TCJA extension might...
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Options for Reducing the Revenue Loss of TCJA Extension
Read moreUpdate: The offset options below were estimated prior to enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and have not been updated. Some options...
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Policymakers Should Include Dynamic Scores for Tax Reform
Read moreAs policymakers consider extending parts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and possibly making other tax changes, there will be discussion about how...
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There Are Plenty of Offsets for Tax Cut Extensions
Read moreAs Congress considers extensions of the expiring provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), lawmakers will need to come up with $3.9 to $4.8...
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Congress Should Avoid a Costly End-of-Year Package
Read moreWith debt nearing record levels, interest payments surging, and major trust funds approaching insolvency, Congress should avoid worsening our already...
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You Can’t Just Wish Away Deficit Effects by Assuming Something is Permanent
Read moreSome lawmakers are making the case that expiring tax cuts should be considered permanent in order to hide the $3.9 trillion increase in deficits that...
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IRS Estimates a $606 Billion Tax Gap for 2022
Read moreThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently published its projections of the “ tax gap” – the difference between taxes owed to and collected by the...
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Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Introduce Employee Retention Tax Credit Repeal Act
Read moreIn response to concerns over fraudulent claims over the past few years, Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Thom Tillis (R-NC)...
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Plans to Address TCJA Expirations
Read moreUPDATE (October 2024): This piece has been updated for several plans in Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s Solutions Initiative 2024 . With large parts of...
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Bipartisan Group Urges Congress to Pay for Tax Cut Extension
Read moreIn a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee, Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, joins 10 other budget...
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Donald Trump’s Proposal to End Taxes on Overtime
Read moreFormer President Donald Trump recently proposed eliminating taxes on overtime pay. On a static basis, we estimate ending taxes on all overtime pay...