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Sep 15, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

SALT Cap Repeal Does Not Belong in Reconciliation

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Sep 13, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Taxes

Ways and Means Proposes $1.3 Trillion of Tax Breaks, $2.3 Trillion of Tax Hikes

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Sep 22, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

Maya MacGuineas: Mind the (tax) gap: To fund new spending, people should pay the taxes they owe

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an...
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Sep 15, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

SALT Cap Repeal Does Not Belong in Reconciliation

For Immediate Release Though the recent draft tax legislation proposed by the Ways and Means Committee is silent on the issue of the $10,000 state...
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Sep 13, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Taxes

Ways and Means Proposes $1.3 Trillion of Tax Breaks, $2.3 Trillion of Tax Hikes

UPDATE (9/13/2021): The Joint Committee on Taxation has released a full score of the revenue proposals, including the revenue-raising items. The...
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Sep 9, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

Closing the Stepped-Up Basis Loophole

Reconciliation should not add a penny to the national debt. As lawmakers work to craft a package with $3.5 trillion of new spending and tax breaks...
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Sep 2, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

CBO Estimates $120 Billion from IRS Funding Boost

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published an estimate of the revenue effects of President Biden’s proposal to increase Internal Revenue...
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Jul 14, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

Chartbook: Reducing the Tax Gap

One of the most fair and efficient ways for policymakers to raise revenue would be to close some portion of the “ tax gap .” The tax gap is the...
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Jul 7, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

There is No Such Thing as Progressive SALT Cap Relief

According to media reports , Congress is considering reforming, rather than repealing, the $10,000 cap on the deduction for State and Local Taxes (...
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Jul 6, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

Republican and Democratic Presidents Support Reducing the Tax Gap

One of the most fair and efficient ways for policymakers to raise revenue would be to close some portion of the “tax gap," or the difference between...
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Jun 30, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes

Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Narrow the Tax Gap

Last month, Senator Angus King (I-ME), along with Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Tim Kaine (D-VA), introduced the Stop Corporations and High...
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