Inversions Come Up As An Offset Possibility
The House Budget Committee Democrats jumped into the transportation debate last week with a proposed surface transportation reauthorization that...
Tax Extenders
Second Half of the Year Means Plenty of Fiscal Speed Bumps Ahead
As we move past the midpoint of 2015, several fiscal deadlines are fast approaching. Congress is preparing to act on two important Fiscal Speed Bumps...
Tax Day 2015: Charts to Explain Our Tax System
In honor of tax day, CRFB and our partners at Fix the Debt released a Tax Day 2015 chartbook yesterday, with ten charts (and one table) that explain...
House Considers $320 Billion of Tax Cuts
The House of Representatives is considering this week whether to revive several tax breaks known as the "tax extenders" and add their cost to the...
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Fiscal Speed Bumps Will Keep the New Congress Busy
Although the 114th Congress is just getting settled, it will have to move quickly to address a series of deadlines with serious policy and fiscal...
Slipping Permanent Tax Breaks into the Lame Duck
Lawmakers have tried several times to revive tax provisions that expired last year and extend them permanently, at a substantial cost to the national...
Yes, Tax Cuts Increase the Debt
With Congress set to retroactively revive the tax extenders for the past year at a cost of $42 billion, our president, Maya MacGuineas,...
Tax Extenders Deal Violates the Budget Act, Adds to Debt
The House approved last night a deficit-increasing one-year tax extenders package. After a correction by the Joint Committee on Taxation, the updated...
How to Offset the Tax Extenders
Update (12/3): This blog has been updated to reflect a correction the Joint Committee on Taxation made to its estimate of the wind production credit...