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Audio Briefings
Background on Tax Policy
National organizations sign letter to Senate to prevent billions in lost revenue (3/30/09)
Over 750 organizations from across the country urge Congress to adopt the Child Tax Credit provision in the House economic recovery bill (2/9/09)
HNR: Child Tax Credit Improvement Enacted in Financial Rescue Bill (10/9/08)
HNR: Senate Fails to Move Tax Legislation (8/5/08)=> More News
CBPP: Lincoln-Kyl Estate Tax Amendment is Both Unnecessary and Unaffordable (4/2/09)
CBPP: Proposal to Cap Deductions for High-Income Households Would Reduce Charitable Contributions by Only 1.9 Percent - Would Help to Finance Universal Coverage (3/21/09)
CBPP: Very Few Small Business Owners Would Face Tax Increases Under President's Budget: Vast Majority Would Benefit from Other Key Proposals (2/28/09)
CBPP: Evidence Shows that Tax Cuts Lose Revenue (7/18/08)
CBPP: Improving the Refundable Child Tax Credit: An Important Step Toward Reducing Child Poverty (5/19/08)
First Focus: The Child Tax Credit Gap: A Snapshot of Families Left Out (May 2008)
The Brookings Institute: Metro Raise: Boosting the Earned Income Tax Credit to Help Metropolitan Workers and Families (May 2008)
CTJ: Surtax on Millionaires to Help Veterans Would be a Tiny Sacrifice for the Richest 0.3 Percent of Taxpayers (5/15/08)
CBPP: Families Helped by the Child Tax Credit Expansion Work Hard in Low-Paying Jobs (5/15/08)
CBPP: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go? (4/14/08)
=> More Policy Analyses and Research
CRS: Tax Policy Options After Hurricane Katrina (9/19/05)
CBO: Effects of the Federal Estate Tax on Farms and Small Businesses (July 2005)
Testimony of Len Burman on the AMT Before the Tax Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee (5/23/05)
Bill Status and Summary: Individual Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal (S 1103 introduced by Sen. Baucus 5/23/05)
Bill Status and Summary: Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act (HR 8) (passed by House 4/13/05)
=> More Government Resources
Audio Briefing:
(Note: Unfortunately, due to technical problems the full briefing is not available)
- Joan Entmacher, NWLC, discusses the negative impact unfair tax policies have produced in recent years and reviews a set of progressive revenue raising policies that would benefit the common good.
- Alison Goldberg, Wealth for the Common Good, reviews effective strategies to mobilize business leaders and wealth spokespeople for tax fairness.
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