Hillary Clinton

Clinton Would Tinker With, Not Rewrite, the Tax Code

While many Republican presidential candidates are promoting their versions of broad-based tax reform, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton so far seems disinterested in fundamentally restructuring the code. Instead, she’d retain the framework of the current tax law, while tweaking the code to

August 11, 2015Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Hillary Clinton’s Complex, Gimmicky Profit-Sharing Plan

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has offered a new tax subsidy to encourage firms to share profits with their employees. The idea of profit sharing is worth debating, but Clinton’s specific proposal is enormously complicated and depends on budget gimmicks to add up. Her basic

July 21, 2015Howard Gleckman

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Highway Drama Drives Contingency Planning

Still on the Hill: Extenders and highway funding drama. Today, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to mark-up its proposed restoration of expired tax breaks , and the full Senate plans to hold a procedural vote on highway funding legislation. Congress faces increasing pressure to move quickly

July 21, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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Plans, Expectations, and Avoidance

An outline of a safe plan: No sharp edges. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shared her tax agenda yesterday, but as Howard Gleckman notes, most of her proposals are familiar , including a Buffett tax on very-high income households and small business tax relief. She did not endorse

July 14, 2015Renu Zaretsky

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Hillary Clinton Outlines Her Play-It-Safe Tax Agenda

In what her campaign billed as a major economic policy speech today in New York, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton outlined her agenda for what she described as a Growth and Fairness Economy. And while she included a number of tax proposals, few were new. Indeed, the speech was

July 13, 2015Howard Gleckman

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Six-Year Road Funding, Renewals on Repeat, and Investigations

Highway funding: Will the House GOP play the long game? Ways & Means Chair Paul Ryan wants to pair international tax changes with six-year funding for highways, and he wants it done this year . To buy time to flesh out his plan to use revenue from a one-time tax on foreign profits of US

July 13, 2015Renu Zaretsky