Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Takes on Temporary Tax Breaks
The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote an opinion piece today decrying special interest tax subsidies that may be added to a year-end...
Tax Extenders
Ways and Means Tax Package Could Cost Over $900 Billion Now
Last month, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a tax package that would revive and extend several tax extenders through 2020 and...
Tax Extender Package Could Lead to $710 Billion of More Debt
Update 6/24/2019: During markup, the Ways & Means Committee added an amendment further increasing the child tax credit for young children, at an...
Tax Extenders Package Could Add Half a Trillion Dollars to the Debt
The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to mark up legislation to revive special interest tax breaks known as “tax extenders” this week...
Reviving Expired Tax Extenders Could Cost $150 Billion
For years, Washington has resigned itself to a patchwork of tax policy in place for one or two years at a time, allowing niche temporary...
Joint Letter: Don't Revive the Expired Tax Extenders
Below is a joint letter sent today to Congressional leadership and the heads of the taxwriting committees urging them against reviving the...
Marc Goldwein and Russ Latino: Congress Must Break its Addiction to Unjust Tax Extenders
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Russ Latino is vice...
Leave Tax Extenders in the Past
Some in Congress reportedly want to revive a package of narrow tax breaks that expired 14 months ago, at the end of 2017, known as “tax extenders.”...
House to Vote on $100 Billion Lame Duck Tax Package
The House will likely consider a package of lame duck tax cuts costing almost $100 billion over ten years. About half of the cost comes from...
Joint Letter: End the Tax Extenders Once And For All
Below is a joint letter to Congressional leadership and the heads of the taxwriting committees that it is time to end the practice of enacting...