When Congress finally extends the payroll tax cut that is due to expire in a few weeks, it may also be taking another step down...

With congressional deficit reduction efforts largely collapsed, the question remains: What are we going to do about the nation’s long-term budget mess? Since any realistic...

Last December, Congress replaced the two-year-old Making Work Pay tax credit (MWP) with this year’s payroll tax cut. That change cut taxes for higher-income workers,...

Congress is now shadow boxing about the payroll tax holiday that is set to expire at the end of this year. Currently, workers are getting...

By Dan Baneman and Jim Nunns With election season heating up and 2012 just around the corner, we are hearing a lot about the pending...

Fewer than 3,300 estates will owe federal estate tax this year, the smallest number in more than 75 years (other than 2010 when the tax...

Should Congress extend and expand the payroll tax cut it first passed a year ago? In a bizarre but not unexpected role reversal, Democrats insist...

In just a few years, the 2010 health reform law will begin providing subsidies to help low- and moderate-income people buy health insurance. And that...

My latest column for the Christian Science Monitor: Tax reform has emerged as a key issue for GOP presidential hopefuls. Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants...

As long as politicians keep squabbling about what to do about the Bush era tax cuts, we are doomed. There will be no serious deficit...