Reports and News on Tax Reform at the National Level
Microsoft exploits tax loopholes to dodge paying income taxes, the progressive pulse, Oct 3, 2013
A Brief History of Tax Expenditures, Tax Foundation, August 22, 2013
Coalition Presses Congress to Close Corporate Tax Loopholes, AccountingWEB, Aug. 21, 2013
G-20 Backs Plan to Curb Corporate Tax Strategy, Andrew E Kramer and Floyd Norris, New York Times, July 20, 2013
Richer Farmers, Bigger Subsidies, James B Stewart, New York Times, July 20, 2013
When Tax Reform Means Soaking the Rich, Joseph J Thorndike, Huffington Post, May 7, 2013
The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures in the Individual Income Tax System, Congressional Budget Office, May 2013
What Extra Tax Breaks for the Richest Americans Cost Women and Families, National Women’s Law Center, April 26, 2013
On whether the rich pay too little in taxes, New York Times, April 17, 2013
Filing Your Taxes Fun? Our View, USA Today Editorial, April 4, 2013
Who Loses Which Tax Breaks Under President Obama’s Proposed Limit on Tax Expenditures, Citizens for Tax Justice, March 29, 2013
Revisiting the Distribution of Tax Expenditures, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, March 7, 2013
A Costly and Unjust Perk for Financiers, by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, New York Times, Feb. 25, 2013
As Obama Confronts Corporate Tax Reform, Past Lessons Suggest Lobbyists Will Fight for Loopholes. Huffington Post, Feb 15, 2013
Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures for Fiscal Years 2012-2017, Congressional Budget Office, Feb 1, 2013
Next Round of Deficit Reduction Must Tackle Hidden Spending in the Tax Code, Center for American Progress, Jan 22, 2013
Tax Expenditures: Background and Evaluation Criteria and Questions, United States Government Accountability Office, Jan. 2013
Loopholes to Some, Lifeline to Others, Edwardo Porter, New York Times, December 12, 2012
Reforming Our Tax System, Reducing Our Deficit, Center for American Progress, Dec 4, 2012
Tax Expenditure Database, the Pew Center for the States, Dec. 3, 2012
A Dozen Economic Facts About Tax Reform, The Hamilton Project, May 2013
A Nation with too Many Tax Breaks, Edwardo Porter, New York Times, March 13, 2012
Toward a Common Good – Bridging the Political Divide with Deficit Reduction Recommendations for the Super Committee, US PIRG / National Taxpayers Union, Sept 2011
Of Loopholes and Potholes, Nancy Folbe, New York Times, July 25, 2011
Less is More: The Modified Zero Plan for Tax Reform, Paul Weinstein Jr and Marc Goldwein, Progressive Policy Institute, April 2011
Judging Tax Expenditures: Spending Programs Buried Within the Nation’s Tax Code Need to be Reviewed, Citizens for Tax Justice, Nov 13, 2009