immigration reform

Dynamic Scoring Forum: Three Things You Should Know About Dynamic Scoring

This is one of a series of guest TaxVox blog posts discussing dynamic scoring. The House recently changed the rules of budget scoring: The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation will now account for macroeconomic effects when estimating the budget impacts of major

February 27, 2015Donald Marron

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Will Immigrants Get A Tax Windfall From Refundable Credits?

In the end-of-the-year congressional scramble, lawmakers scuttled an effort to permanently extend a number of tax breaks—largely because many feared it would open the door to widespread use of refundable tax credits by undocumented immigrants covered by President Obama’s recent executive order. But

December 12, 2014Elaine Maag

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Executive Privilege, Budget Consequences, and Rolling with the Taxes

Shutdown, Omnibus Spending, Continuing Resolution : So many choices in the wake of an Executive Action. The newly emboldened GOP ( or is it? ) has several options when responding to last night’s executive order on immigration issued by President Obama. After its Thanksgiving break, Congress will

November 21, 2014Renu Zaretsky

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“Dead Reform Walking:” On Fairness, Immigration, and Spending

A Senator says “ no way ” to a bill that won ’ t see December ’ s light of day. As far as the lame-duck Congress is concerned, the Marketplace Fairness Act is dead: House Speaker John Boehner assured as much last week . Senator Ted Cruz has added his two cents (tax-free) insisting it is the “height

November 19, 2014Renu Zaretsky

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Immigration Pork

Do you think Congress really cares about the budget deficit anymore? Or that the age-old practice of buying lawmakers votes with local projects is really...

June 25, 2013Howard Gleckman