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Tax Policy in September: Racing to a Grinding Halt?

Have it your way… unless you’re Burger King. Five Senate Democrats—Illinois’ Dick Durbin, Michigan’s Carl Levin, Rhode Island’s Jack Reed, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders and Ohio’s Sherrod Brown—asked Burger King to not move its legal headquarters to lower-tax Canada. They accused it of trying to avoid

September 12, 2014Renu Zaretsky

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Whither the Highway Trust Fund?

Smoothing pensions to fund highways: A bumpy, short road. The House Ways & Means Committee will include “ pension smoothing ” in a $10.9 billion highway funding bill to be marked up tomorrow . In 2012 lawmakers covered two years of highway and transit funding by allowing employers to delay tax-

July 9, 2014Renu Zaretsky