Tax Policy


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Audio Briefings
Background on Tax Policy

Latest News

HNR: Senate Fails to Move Forward on the Buffett Rule (4/30/12)
HNR: Senate Fails to Advance Bill to End Tax Breaks for Big Oil (4/2/12)
ThinkProgress: Senators Who Voted To Protect Oil Tax Breaks Received $23,582,500 From Big Oil (3/29/12)
MSNBC.Com: Senate Rejects Obama Call to End Big Oil Tax Breaks (3/29/2012)
HNR: Proposals to Implement the "Buffett Rule" Surface in Congress (3/19/12)
HNR: Congress Passes an Extension of Unemployment Insurance and the Payroll Tax Cut (2/21/12)
HNR: The President's FY 2013 Budget: Despite Tight Funding Caps, Some Human Needs Priorities Maintained (2/21/12)
90 Organizations Sign Letter in Support of the Child Tax Credit (February 2012)

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Policy Analyses and Research

CBPP: Tax Credits for Working Families Help Women Now and Later (3/30/12)
Center for American Progress: Immigrants and the Child Tax Credit by the Numbers (1/25/12)
CTJ: State-by-State Estate Tax Figures Show that President's Plan Is Too Generous to Millionaires (11/18/11)
CBPP: The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2010 (11/15/11)
CTJ: Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010 (11/3/11)
Citizens for Tax Justice: State-by-State Figures on Proposed Millionaire Surcharge (10/6/11)

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Government Resources

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)

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Tools

National Priorities Project: Tax Dollars Trade-Off Tool