Tax Policy


Background & Briefings

Audio Briefings
Background on Tax Policy

Latest News

Kentucky.Com: Ky. Voices: Poverty Growing in State; Tax Reform a Way to Change Trend (1/29/12)
HNR: Congress Not Anxious to Raise Working Families' Taxes in January (12/16/11)
ThinkProgress: Corporate Tax Dodging Has Cost States More Than $42 Billion In Revenue Over The Last Three Years (12/7/11)
CTJ: The Verdict Is In: Business Tax Breaks Do Not Create Jobs (11/18/11)
EPI: Cutting Taxes for the Rich Never Ends Well (11/2/11)
CBPP: The Case for the Buffett Rule in One Chart (9/20/11)

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Policy Analyses and Research

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