Tax Policy

Background

Background on Tax Policy

Latest News
HNR: Senate Fails to Move Tax Legislation (8/5/08)
Over 1,100 organizations from across the country urge Congress to pass Child Tax Credit improvements! (7/15/08)
HNR: House-Passed Child Tax Credit Will Help 13 Million Low-Income Children; Senate Tax Bills at a Standstill (7/2/08)
HNR: Senate Rejects Bill With Child Tax Credit Improvements (6/13/08)
HNR: Improvements in Low-Income Tax Credits in House Bill (5/23/08)
HNR: Congress Finalizes Economic Stimulus Package (2/15/08)
HNR: Action on the Stimulus Package Delayed in the Senate (2/1/08)

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Policy Analyses and Research

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)

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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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