Comprehensive Taxes

Ways & Means Under Rep. Richard Neal (December 14)

Update 319: Do Democrats Have Ways & Means To Pass Real or Just Marginal Tax Reform? Given the new majority in the House starting next month, the House Ways and Means Committee, with its exclusive jurisdiction over tax legislation, means the end of tax cut mania in Congress.  The immediate challenge in this policy area …

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Tax Extenders Time is Here (December 11)

Update 318: Tax Extenders Time is Here; Perennial Policy Debate is Itself Debated No holiday season on the Hill is complete without a tax extenders bill to re-up the temporary tax breaks expiring that given year.  A policy perennial, the annual debate can be seen as a natural way to review and renew breaks not …

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State of Play of Leading Tax Proposal (Dec. 22)

At the heart of the GOP economic legislative agenda for 2017 is tax reform.  Both the incoming Trump administration and leaders on the Hill have signaled its centrality.  Treasury Secretary-designate Steve Mnuchin has said that tax reform will be introduced within 90 days of inauguration.  Speaker Paul Ryan, former chair of House Ways and Means, …

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Tax Policy Tealeaves (Dec.8)

Today the House passed the FY17 CR to extend the budget through until April 28.   The 114th Congress is almost in the books, pending only the Senate vote on final passage of the CR, itself pending only the outcome of legislative negotiations regarding a mine worker protection provision sought by Sens. Manchin, Brown, et al. We’ll cover the …

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Counterprogramming Trump on Taxes (July 21)

Mike & Co., In a couple of hours, when Donald Trump takes the stage in Cleveland in a couple of hours to accept the GOP presidential nomination, it’s a good bet he won’t say much about his tax plan.  With good reason: he doesn’t have one. Yesterday, Trump’s campaign announced  that the candidate is preparing a …

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The Three Tax Buckets for 2017 (May 18)

Mike & Co. —  Defying a tradition dating back to 1976, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Trump has continuously flipped his answer about whether will or won’t release his tax documents, saying at times absolutely yes.  Or would never dream of it.  Or really wants to but really can’t just yet.  While we wait, we have a …

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Let a Thousand Tax Plans Bloom (May 17)

Mike & Co., Word this afternoon is that Senate Banking will take another shot at a conformations votes for five regulatory nominees, including two for SEC commissioner, perhaps as soon as this week.  This follows an aborted April 7 vote, in which four Democrats (Schumer, Menendez, Warren, and Merkeley) withheld support for their own party’s …

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VAT's Under Discussion  (Mar. 23)

Mike & Co. – In a stark departure from political history since Reagan and Goldwater, the Republican Party this year has struggled to come up with a unified tax message. Perhaps more odd, still, are the abrupt change in tone surrounding the tax debate, from the traditionally robustly pronounced to a muted, tentative, and confused …

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