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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... -
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... -
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... -
Weinstein: Simplification Should Be First Priority of Tax Reform
Read moreThe tax reform debate is heating up and many groups are weighing in on what tax provisions should be kept and what the broad revenue and... -
Broadening Base-Broadening: "Beyond Tax Expenditures"
Read moreReaders of The Bottom Line know that we talk frequently on the subject of tax expenditures, the deductions, credits, and other tax preferences which... -
Making the Case for Fundamental Tax Reform
Read moreToday, the Campaign to Fix the Debt released a memo making the case for the “ blank slate” approach to tax reform proposed by Senate Finance Chairman... -
Op-Ed: "Blank Slate" Key to Tax Reform
Read morePOLITICO | July 22, 2013 In the quarter century since Congress last reformed the Tax Code, back in 1986, it seems Washington has worked overtime to... -
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Retargeting Tax Expenditures
Read moreAs Senator Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-MI) continue to work through tax reform using their "blank slate"... -
Thinking Broadly: TPC's Analysis of Limits on Tax Expenditures
Read moreThere is a clear consensus across the political spectrum that reforming the tax system will require going after the many tax expenditures that litter... -
Tax Reform Can Be an Essential Part of Reducing the Debt
Read moreThe recent announcement from Senators Baucus and Hatch to pursue tax reform via a "blank slate" approach is incredibly encouraging. As CRFB Board... -
Don't Take the Health Exclusion Off the Table
Read moreRecently, there has been some discussion of taking the employer-sponsored health exclusion off the table in tax reform. But for those interested in...