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House Ways & Means Committee

Individual Taxes: TaxVox
The other day, the House Ways & Means Committee voted to cut taxes for certain businesses by $310 billion. Washington, being Washington, is now in the midst of a partisan debate over whether this is in fact a tax cut or, conversely, whether failing to cut those business levies would be a tax
May 1, 2014Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Give House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) all the credit in the world for years of hard work developing his tax reform...
February 26, 2014Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
In an effort to jumpstart moribund tax reform efforts, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) is suggesting major changes in the way U.S.-based multinational...
November 19, 2013Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
If you are a tax geek, or even a normal person who wants to keep up with the ongoing debate over restructuring the tax code,...
May 7, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
As regular readers of Tax Vox know, I don’t believe there is much chance President Obama and Congress will agree on individual broad-based tax reform...
February 21, 2013Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Yesterday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who rarely gives public speeches, laid out his agenda for tax reform. Just for fun, I compared...
June 12, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Make no mistake, any attempt at tax reform will be a heavy lift. But an interesting behind-the-scenes debate is brewing among reformers over just how...
May 30, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
A House panel today began what could be the beginning of a remarkable exercise: It is reviewing the merits of dozens of expiring tax provisions...
April 26, 2012Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
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
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