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Individual Taxes: TaxVox
President Trump has named Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy David Kautter as acting commissioner of the IRS. He’d serve in both posts until a...
October 26, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
While President Trump continues to promote what he says will be the biggest tax cut in history for middle-income households, it is increasingly clear that...
October 19, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Kevin Hassett, chair of President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, argued today that the corporate tax cuts in the Sept. 27 Republican Unified Framework would...
October 5, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
The sketch of a tax plan released last week by President Trump and the congressional Republican leadership quietly includes one provision that could raise taxes...
October 3, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
The tax outline unveiled this week by President Trump and the congressional Republican leadership would reduce federal revenue by $2.4 trillion over the next decade,...
September 29, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
President Trump and the congressional Republican leadership released their newest highly-promoted tax plan today . Although the president promised yesterday it would be a “very...
September 27, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and President Trump have more in common than either would likely admit. For example, both have grand, ambitious plans they cannot...
September 20, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
An Experiment: How Low Could Tax Rates Go If Congress Eliminated All Tax Expenditures? How low could Congress cut tax rates without losing revenue? To...
September 13, 2017Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
President Trump and congressional Republicans are pressing ahead on a tax bill that will almost certainly include a major corporate tax cut. And they are...
September 8, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
In a much-promoted speech today, President Trump vowed in Springfield MO that a coming tax bill would “benefit loyal, hard-working Americans and their families” and...
August 30, 2017Howard Gleckman