tax expenditures

A Tax By Any Other Name

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." William Shakespeare If I understand correctly, Congressional...

June 30, 2011Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Spending in Disguise

Republicans are demanding a deficit-reduction package that’s entirely spending cuts. Democrats insist that revenues must also be included. Are these positions completely irreconcilable? Not if...

June 29, 2011Donald Marron

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The GOP, Ethanol, and the No-Tax Pledge

A majority of Senate Republicans yesterday took a symbolic but hugely important vote to eliminate $6 billion in tax subsidies for the production of ethanol...

June 15, 2011Howard Gleckman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Do We Need an Election to Fix the Deficit?

I spent this morning at one of those Washington institutions: the budget roundtable. Today’s (at the Aspen Institute) gave me a chance to pose a...

May 17, 2011Howard Gleckman

Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Too Many Cooks on Tax Policy?

I’m preparing a presentation on our tax system for a group of visiting foreign tax officials and they wanted to know how responsibilities are divided...

May 16, 2011Leonard E. Burman

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox