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Federal Budget and Economy

The War on the IRS

December 16, 2014 –
The massive 2015 spending bill that President Obama is likely to sign this week continues an ongoing effort to trash the Internal Revenue Service. It...

The Senate Keeps Working...

December 16, 2014 –
Still on deck in the Senate: It is expected this week to renew dozens of expired tax breaks, including tax cuts for business research, wind power,...

“They Said That They Would Do It and Indeed They Did.” 


December 15, 2014 –
“ Oh, what a night …” but no shut down. Ted Cruz and a handful of allies succeeded in delaying the Senate vote on the 2015 budget, but they couldn’t...
Federal Budget and Economy

Will Immigrants Get A Tax Windfall From Refundable Credits?

December 12, 2014 –
In the end-of-the-year congressional scramble, lawmakers scuttled an effort to permanently extend a number of tax breaks—largely because many feared...

Everybody’s Working for the Weekend

December 12, 2014 –
No shutdown, so far . Democrats hated it because of riders weakening Dodd-Frank financial protections and allowing fat-cats to triple their donations...
Federal Budget and Economy

Kudos to Sandy Levin For Speaking Out For Fiscal Responsibility

December 11, 2014 –
Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI), the senior Democrat on the House Ways & Means Committee, stood up on the House floor yesterday and urged Congress to...

No Congressional Approval of a Spending Deal Yet, But Plenty of Commotion

December 11, 2014 –
In the spending bill, inversion curbs could be curbed. The bill to fund the government through September 2015, scheduled for a House vote today and a...
Individual Taxes

A Repatriation Tax Holiday for US Multinationals? Four Contagious Illusions

December 10, 2014 –
U.S.-based multinationals hold $2.1 trillion in foreign cash and insist that the only way they can feasibly bring that money back home is if Congress...

Last Minute, or Second- or Third-to-Last Minute, Deals Before the Holidays

December 10, 2014 –
Congress blows yet another budget deadline . After missing its chance to approve a spending bill to keep the government running after Thursday,...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why Does Congress Pay For Some Tax Cuts and Not Others?

December 9, 2014 –
Can somebody explain to me why the House agreed last week to restore 50+ tax subsidies without paying for them (and thus adding $42 billion to the...
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The Tax Gap’s Many Shades of Gray (Brief)

Daniel Hemel, Janet Holtzblatt, Steven M. Rosenthal
February 22, 2022

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