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Op-Ed: Grand Budget Bargain? No, Congress Would Prefer To Fight
Read moreBrookings | July 8, 2013 Barring a miracle, budget bargains, either grand or petty, are not in the cards this year. The Congress would prefer to fight...
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GAO Finds Low Effective Corporate Tax Rates
Read moreAs the tax reform debate begins to heat up again, a new report released by the General Accountability Office (GAO) contributes some telling...
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Op-Ed: The Baucus-Hatch “Blank Slate” Approach to Tax Reform Could Be Revolutionary
Read moreThe Government We Deserve | July 3, 2013 No one quite knows what exactly Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin...
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American Public Supports Fiscally Responsible Corporate Tax Reform
Read moreAmong developed countries the US is unique in taxes in a number of different ways. One claim to fame is the fact that the U.S. now has the highest...
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Are Energy Tax Expenditures Effective at Reducing Emissions?
Read moreIn 2010 and 2011, the federal government "spent" nearly $50 billion in revenue on energy tax expenditures. But are these provisions actually achieving...
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Op-Ed: The Myriad Benefits of a Carbon Tax
Read moreThe New York Times | June 28, 2013 Few goals in Washington have more bipartisan support, at least in theory, than cleaning up the tax code...
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The Zero Plan Re-Emerges in the Tax Reform Debate
Read moreAccording to press reports today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are about to take a very...
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Op-Ed: Modernizing Corporate Taxation
Read moreProject Syndicate | June 26, 2013 How to tax the income of multinational corporations (MNCs) was an unlikely headline topic at the recent G-8 summit...
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RATE Coalition Speaks Out For Corporate Tax Reform
Read moreThe United States has the highest statutory corporate tax rate in the developed world, but substantial revenues are forgone through a variety of tax...
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Senate Finance Looks at Types of Income and Entities
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee has been busy churning out options papers on various tax reform topics (we wrote previously about their economic security...
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TPC Finds Little Price Shock for Reforming the Mortgage Interest Deduction
Read moreTax expenditures in theory promote specific policy goals by subsidizing that behavior through tax benefits. However, in comprehensive tax reform...