Tax Reform In An Era Of Deficits
Tax reform should focus on three goals:1) reducing needless complexity, 2) reducing backdoor spending through the tax code, and 3) reforming rules for taxing saving and investment to make our tax law...
View ArticleTax Reform: The Wheels Are Beginning To Turn
In a contribution to the Christian Science Monitor, Donald Marron discusses strategies to reform Americas broken tax code. Marron proposes ridding the system of corporate and individual tax preferences...
View ArticleCutting Tax Preferences is Key to Tax Reform and Deficit Reduction : Donald...
Donald Marron's testimony before the Senate Committee on the Budget on tax reforming the tax code.
View ArticleReforming Federal Taxes: Lessons From History : Eugene Steuerle's Testimony...
Eugene Steuerle's testimony before the Senate Committee on the Budget on reforming the tax code.
View ArticleTaxes and the Deficit Reduction Plans
Plans to rein in the U.S. budget deficit remain in the spotlight as the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force released its plan to solve the debt crisis. TPC expert William Gale offers...
View ArticleFive Myths about the Bush Tax Cut
The tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003, known as the Bush tax cuts, are set to expire Dec. 31, and the fight over what to do is increasingly heated. Should the tax cuts expire, as some Democrats have...
View ArticleThe Future of Individual Tax Rates: Effects on Growth and Distribution :...
Donald Marron's testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance on the individual tax system.
View ArticleThe Future of Individual Tax Rates: Effects of Economic Growth and...
Leonard Burman's testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance on whether and how to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
View ArticleThe Impact of the Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2010...
The Wyden-Gregg tax reform proposal would represent a broad reform of the federal income tax system. This paper examines the plan's impact on individuals' effective marginal tax rates (EMTR), the...
View ArticleCountdown to Catastrophe
This article, written for a lay audience, discusses the causes and consequences of catastrophic budget failure. When Americas ballooning federal debt becomes unmanageable, we might simply refuse to...
View ArticleLet's freeze more than chump change
President Obama has proposed to freeze most domestic discretionary spending -- a step in the right direction, but not enough. The $250 billion in expected savings over the next decade is chump change...
View ArticleWe need to ban the evil Santas
The two Santas came to Washington in 2000 and threaten to never leave. If we don't send them packing, Christmas Future could be very bleak indeed.
View ArticleComparing Subsidies for the House and Senate Health Care Bills
Consider an employer who bears an equal cost for their employees and must choose between the proposed subsidy for those on the exchange and the current subsidy for those who get employer-provided...
View ArticleReal Tax Reform is Always Hard: Some Advice for the Task Force
Political theater? Such is the label many have attached to the tax reform task force headed by Paul Volcker. But I heard the same claim made about President Reagan's State of the Union request for a...
View ArticleAutomatic Enrollment in IRAs: Costs and Benefits
To encourage better retirement saving, President Obama recently proposed policies that would require firms without retirement savings plans to automatically enroll their workers in IRAs. In addition,...
View ArticleConversations: Leonard Burman
Tax Notes, July 27, 2009. Leonard E. Burman is a fellow at the Urban Institute and director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. He previously served as deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis...
View ArticleWho Pays No Income Tax?
Nearly half of all tax units will pay no income tax in 2009. The fraction of non-taxpayers differs widely, depending on income, tax filing status, and whether the unit is elderly or contains children.
View ArticleDifferent Way to Pay for Health Reform
Washington Times op-ed, May 19, 2009. Expanding health-care access is a top priority for the Obama administration, and leaders in Congress are on board. Political leaders also agree that any health...
View ArticleA Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform
This paper outlines a plan for a VAT dedicated to paying for a new universal health insurance voucher combined with a vastly simplified and much flatter income tax. Top income tax rates could be cut to...
View ArticlePresident-Elect Obama's Tax and Stimulus Plans
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama proposed a comprehensive tax plan that would raise taxes on high-income taxpayers, cut taxes for low- and middle-income households, and lose $2.9 trillion...
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