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Latest News

HNR: Showdown on Taxes Looms (8/11/10)
Over 1,100 Organizations Send Congress Letter in Support of Refundable Tax Credits (6/21/10)
CTJ: Douglas Holtz-Eakin Peddles Myths About the Bush Tax Cuts (7/16/10)
HNR: Senate Committee Passes Budget with Tight Restraints on Spending (4/26/10)
Rock Hill Herald: Push to Expand Child Tax Credits Aims at Youth Crime (4/8/10)
Rock Hill Herald: South Carolina Law Enforcement Back Child Tax Credit to Cut Crime (4/7/10)
HNR: Congress Fails to Extend the Estate Tax (12/23/09)
HNR: House Passes Estate and Extender Tax Bills (12/11/09)

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Policy Analyses and Research

EPI: Let the Tax Cuts for the Rich Expire (8/17/10)
CBPP: Extension of High-Income Tax Cuts Would Benefit Few Small Businesses; Jobs Tax Credit Would Be Better (8/3/10)
CBPP: Letting High-Income Tax Cuts Expire is Proper Response to Nation's Short- and Long-Term Challenges (7/26/10)
CBPP: Over 3 Million Low-Income Children in Rural Areas Face Cut in Child Tax Credit if Recovery Act Improvement Expires (6/10/10)
CHN: Tax Credits for Working Families: Helping American Families Make Ends Meet (5/11/10)
CTJ: State-by-State Comparison: Republcian Approach to Extending Bush Tax Cuts vs. Obama's Approach (4/22/10)
CBPP: Failure to Extend Improvements in Child Tax Credit Would Harm Millions of Low-Income Working Families (2/16/10)
CTJ: President Obama's Fiscal Year 2011 Budget: Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes (2/2/10)

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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.

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