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• How to Improve the Tax Subsidy for Home Ownership

  
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  Last week, at the request of the House Ways and Means Committee, I testified on how Congress could reform the mortgage interest deduction, a popular tax expenditure provision with a big sticker price. The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the mortgage interest deduction will cost $380 billion over ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yet Another Proposal To Raise My Own Taxes

  
  The Baseline Scenario — Authority: 527
  By James Kwak In chapter 7 of  White House Burning , we proposed to eliminate or scale back a number of tax breaks that I benefit from directly, including the employer health care exclusion, the deduction for charitable contributions, and, most importantly, tax preferences for investment income . We did not, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Will the Retirement of Max Baucus Open the Door to Tax Reform?

  
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  It has become conventional wisdom in Washington that the just-announced retirement of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) boosts chances for tax reform in the short term. I’m not so sure. The upbeat argument goes like this: By announcing that he will not run for reelection in 2014, Baucus is free ...
  3 weeks ago

• Simplifying Child Care Tax Benefits

  
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  Every year at tax time I am reminded of two tax benefits that subsidize my children’s child care – the employer-provided child care exclusion and the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit  (CDCTC). Families with sufficient expenses can benefit from both provisions. Congress could simplify these child care benefits ...
  5 weeks ago

• What’s the Mix of Spending and Revenue in the President’s Deficit Reduction Proposal?

  
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  President Obama’s budget identifies a group of policies as a $1.8 trillion deficit reduction proposal. I found the budget presentation of this proposal somewhat confusing; in particular, it is difficult to see how much deficit reduction the president wants to do through spending cuts versus revenue increases. After ...
  5 weeks ago

• The President’s Plan to Cap Retirement Saving Benefits

  
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  The president’s FY 2014 Budget would limit tax benefits for workers with high-balance retirement saving accounts. Although critics call the plan a blow to workers’ retirement saving, I consider the plan a smart way to roll back the billions in tax breaks that go to investors who don’t need tax incentives to ...
  5 weeks ago

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