corporate taxes

Inside Obama’s Framework for Business Tax Reform

Here’s what I love about President Obama’s Framework for Business Tax Reform : His diagnosis of the problem is spot on. In just a few...

February 22, 2012Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

What a Value-Added Tax Would Mean for the Tax Code—and the Economy

A well-designed Value-Added Tax could simplify the tax code for most households and finance significant reductions in corporate and individual income tax rates without adding...

January 31, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

President Obama’s Tax Deform Agenda

For a while there, I thought President Obama was going to embrace tax reform in his State of the Union address. Instead, following the lead...

January 25, 2012Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Romney’s Tax Plan: Big Benefits for the Wealthy and Higher Deficits

A new Tax Policy Center analysis finds that Mitt Romney’s tax plan would cut taxes for millions of households but bestow most of its benefits...

January 5, 2012Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Rick Santorum’s Tax Plan

With Rick Santorum surging in Iowa, it is a good time to take a look at his tax agenda . While his revenue plan has...

January 3, 2012Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Whatever Happened to All Those Expiring Tax Breaks?

In two days, 53 targeted tax breaks will, officially at least, die. By the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation’s count , that’s the number of...

December 29, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Should Congress Extend the Payroll Tax Holiday?

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...

November 29, 2011Howard Gleckman

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox

Anybody Remember Romney’s Tax Plan?

I’ve been reviewing the tax plans of the major Republican presidential hopefuls and am struck at how conventional Mitt Romney’s is. While Herman Cain wants...

November 8, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Cutting Corporate Tax Rates: Another View

On Nov. 2, TaxVox reported on a new Joint Committee on Taxation study on whether it is possible to reduce the corporate tax rate to...

November 6, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Mission Impossible: Cutting the Corporate Tax Rate to 25 Percent

It has been an article of faith among most congressional Republicans and many Democrats that the corporate tax rate should be cut from today’s top...

November 2, 2011Howard Gleckman