Curtis S. Dubay, a leading expert on tax reform, income tax, corporate tax, international taxes, and the estate tax, is a research fellow in tax and economic policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.
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President Obama has come out with another tax hike on the “rich” that will hurt all Americans. This is not surprising. Raising taxes on the… Read More
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House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., this week jumpstarted the sputtering effort to allow states to collect sales taxes on sales by out-of-state, mostly… Read More
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There is widespread agreement that the tax code is inhibiting economic growth and harming American families as a result. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., ranking… Read More
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a thorough and interesting report on how the tax code treats capital income. The goal of the report… Read More
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There is no doubt that the economy has languished in its recovery from the Great Recession, which ended more than five years ago. But signs are emerging… Read More
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IRS Commissioner Josh Koskinen complained recently about Congress cutting the agency’s budget by $350 million in the recent budget deal. Koskinen warns that taxpayer service… Read More
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When a wave of inversions hit earlier this year, there were a variety of Congressional proposals to stop them. They were mostly feckless because none… Read More
Yesterday, the House passed a one-year extension for the “tax extenders”—a package of approximately 50 tax-reducing policies that expired at the end of 2013. The… Read More
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The Congressional Budget Office released its annual study of the distribution of income and federal taxes. It tells us what we’ve long known: The rich pay… Read More
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The Treasury Department released this month figures showing that federal tax revenue exceeded $3 trillion in fiscal year 2014—the first time revenue surpassed that mark…. Read More
