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Tax Reform Targets Corporate Breaks
Read moreThe broad outlines of tax reform have always been clear. Lawmakers trim or eliminate certain tax expenditures and use some or all of the additional...
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The Tax Break-Down: Child Tax Credit
Read moreThis is the fourth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. The...
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The Tax Break-Down: Preferential Rates on Capital Gains
Read moreThis is the third post in a new CRFB 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: LIFO Accounting
Read moreThis is the second post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which discusses tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last-in...
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The Tax Break-Down: The State and Local Tax Deduction
Read moreThis is the first post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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Introducing "The Tax Break-Down"
Read moreWe've written many times before about the $1.3 trillion of tax breaks currently littering the code, urging policymakers to focus on paring back tax...
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An Example of Reforming Beyond Tax Expenditures: Executive Compensation
Read moreBefore leaving for August recess, Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced S. 1476, which would end the ability of...
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Tax Reform on the Daily Show
Read moreJohn Oliver, interim host of The Daily Show with John Stewart, opened last night's program with an update on tax reform. The segment is hilarious, but...
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Weinstein: Make Taxes Simple
Read moreAs Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) continue their cross-country tax reform...
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Tax Reform is Really Hard But Worth The Effort
Read moreUpdate: The Tax Policy Center has released a distributional analysis of the reducing the top individual and corporate rates to 25 percent and...
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Opening the Tax Reform Vault
Read moreUpdated 8/2/2013: Newly released submissions to the Finance Committee have been added. The deadline for Senators to make their arguments for what tax...
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On the President's Proposed "Grand Bargain"
Read moreThe talk of the town in recent days has been President Obama's new plan to combine corporate tax reform with public investments in what President...