Sherrod Brown

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The Senate Democrats’ Plan To Expand Refundable Tax Credits For Working Families Builds On Existing Ideas

Senate Democrats have rallied around the Working Families Tax Relief Act (WFTRA) that would significantly expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and more modestly...

April 22, 2019Elaine Maag

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How To Choose Among Tax Credits That Aim To Support Work, Children, And Poverty Reduction

High-profile Democrats are floating ambitious proposals to reduce economic pressure on working Americans by expanding or supplementing tax credits for low- and middle-income families. These...

January 28, 2019Elaine Maag

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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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On Credits, Boycotts, and the Economy

Congress is in recess until Monday, September 8. The Daily Deduction will resume its regular schedule when Congress returns. “ There will be credits .” Alaskans like the way oil industry profits are taxed --barely. The state grants a corporate income tax credit for qualified oil and gas service-

September 2, 2014Renu Zaretsky