Tax Policy


Background & Briefings

Audio Briefings
Background on Tax Policy

Latest News

HNR: Congress Fails to Extend the Estate Tax (12/23/09)
HNR: House Passes Estate and Extender Tax Bills (12/11/09)
Dozens of National Organizations Sign Letter Voicing Support for the Progressive Revenue Sources Included in the House Health Bill (7/23/09)
CTJ: House Surcharge Proposal Unlikely to Have Noticeable Impact on Small Businesses (7/21/09)
The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Nonprofit Groups Urge Taxing the Wealthy to Help Finance Health Plan (7/9/09)
Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein in the Huffington Post: Responsible Revenues are the Key to Lasting Health Reform (7/7/09)

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Policy Analyses and Research

CBPP: Failure to Extend Improvements in Child Tax Credit Would Harm Millions of Low-Income Working Families (2/16/10)
NWLC: An Expanded and Refundable Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Would Help Make Child Care More Affordable for Million of Families (November 2009)
ITEP: Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States (November 2009)
Tax Policy Center: The Individual Alternative Minimum Tax: Historical Data and Projections (October 2009)

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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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Audio Briefings

Taxes for the Common Good: What You Need to Know (6/11/09)

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.

Presentation Slides:

• "Taxes for the Common Good: Why it Matters"
  by Debbie Weinstein, CHN
• "Funding Investments for the Common Good with Responsible and Fair Tax Policies"
  by Joan Entmacher, NWLC
• "Mobilizing Business Leaders and Wealthy Spokespeople for Tax Fairness"
  by Alison Goldberg, Wealth for the Common Good