tax reform

Tax reform is a term used to describe how governing bodies alter or control the collection or management of taxes.

The government uses many ways to collect revenues through taxation. While the majority of taxes collected in this country are through income tax, land tax and retail tax, the government will still be seeking other ways in which to earn additional tax revenues.

Tax reform can result in a financial positive or a financial negative for the typical taxpayer, leaving people confused as to how changes would benefit them. Many government programs have been set up to provide taxpayer help and advice in the reasoning behind some tax reforms and how it relates to their everyday life.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “tax reform”

 

• Orrin Hatch on tax reform at the ABA--a predictable right-wing rant

  
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  Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker for the ABA Tax Section luncheon today in DC.  Having never heard the man in person, I was surprised at the bumbling nature of his speech.  He came across as an old man reciting a set of platitudes from the GOP talking-points rulebook. Asserting that the tax code is ...
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• If done right, Oregon would benefit from a sales tax: Guest opinion

  
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  Win McCormack writes: The income tax is the most volatile of state taxes, because personal income rises rapidly in good economic times and plunges sharply during recessions.
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• Will The House Be Convinced That An Online Sales Tax Bill Hurts Small Businesses?

  
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  The Marketplace Fairness Act – a bill that forces online businesses to collect sales tax from all 50 states – is fairly controversial . Some fear that it will put an undue burden on small businesses. It’s a legitimate concern, but opponents may not have to worry as the bill is about to face its toughest hurdle ...
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• Co-author of immigration study resigns from Heritage Foundation

  
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  The co-author of a disputed immigration study by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, resigned Friday after questions were raised about racially charged conclusions made in his previous work. Read full article >>        
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• Co-author of immigration study resigns from Heritage Foundation

  
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  The co-author of a disputed immigration study by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, resigned Friday after questions were raised about racially charged conclusions made in his previous work. Read full article >>        
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• Max and Dave Looking for Reform

  
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  Tax reform is like the weather. A lot of people talk aboutit but no one really does anything about it. That may be changing. In the last few years there has been a lot of discussionabout the need for serious tax reform. Advocates of reform point to the size ofthe tax code and how few people can prepare their own tax ...
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• Grover Norquist’s top 6 reasons for supporting the Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill

  
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  Grover Norquist, America’s toughest anti-tax crusader and deficit hawk, testified before the Joint Economic Committee on how higher levels of immigration would benefit the U.S. economy. Here are...
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• Tax-writing committee chairmen launch tax reform website

  
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  During my early years in Washington, D.C., when folks got worked up about an issue, they wrote their members of Congress. Honest to God pen to paper, postage stamp letters. Yeah, I know. Quaint meets geezer alert. But back then, it was what we had. We got bags and bags of mail on hot-button issues. And it ...
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• ANALYSIS: Grover Norquist debunks Heritage Foundation’s claims that immigration reform will add $6.3 trillion to the deficit

  
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  ANALYSIS: Grover Norquist, arguably the country’s most feared anti-tax crusader and deficit hawk, debunked the Heritage Foundation’s claim that immigration reform would add $6.3 trillion to the deficit,...
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• The Victorian branch of the Australian Property Institute Plumbs New Depths

  
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  by Bryan Kavanagh AAPI Today’s Victorian API news demonstrates the Australian Property Institute is at risk of losing its way: “Property taxes shoulder Vic budget The Victorian government is becoming addicted to property taxes, which will raise over $6 billion in forward estimates for the 2013-14 Victorian State ...
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• Divided parties

  
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  Over the last few weeks the media has reveled in the divisions which became apparent in the Maryland Republican Party, first in the party chairman race which was only decided on the second ballot and later with an upheaval in House of Delegates leadership which I’m told succeeded by a two-vote margin – Nic ...
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• Together NC statement on Senate tax plan: Red flags raised by the Senate’s tax reform plan

  
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  The North Carolina Senate’s tax reform plan released today is long on promises and short on details. It is unclear how fair the purported “Tax Fairness Plan” will prove to be. Several red flags are raised by this plan, which … Read More...
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• Jared Bernstein on today’s tax reform debate

  
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  Jared Bernstein, former chief economic advisor for Vice President Biden, debated tax reform with Elizaebth Malm of the Tax Foundation today at an event co-hosted by the Budget and Tax Center , the Civitas Institute , and the Institute on Emerging Issues … Read More...
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• How do you like your taxes? Progressive or regressive?

  
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  One of the few points of consensus that the right and left can come to on North Carolina’s tax system is that it’s badly in need of fixing. The particulars how to do that, and how much taxes different groups … Read More...
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• The Joint Committee’s Report on Tax Reform: Must-read for Policy Geeks

  
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  If you are a tax geek, or even a normal person who wants to keep up with the ongoing debate over restructuring the tax code, download a copy of the congressional Joint Tax Committee’s Tax Reform Working Group Report . It is 568 pages long, doesn’t have much of a plot, has no character development (unless you ...
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• Fair Tax Tuesday

  
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  From this morning’s Peach Pundit Daily ( click here to subscribe ): Tax Reform Coming Next Year? We’ve heard that one before, but this time it may be serious. State Rep. Tom Kirby (R-Loganville) told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that 2014 may be the year to “ kill off Georgia’s income tax .” Have ...
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• Debt Limit and Tax Reform: Both Important, But On Their Own

  
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    Newscom Press reports link the coming debt limit debate with the building effort for tax reform. The debt limit and tax reform are both important, but the connection ends there, as it should. Suggestions that some sort of fast-track procedure for tax reform might be the conservative “ask” in exchange ...
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• Debt ceiling, home mortgage interest deduction and tax reform are in a twisted financial and political knot

  
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  The federal debt is at more than $16.8 trillion and counting . In less than two weeks, the amount of money that Uncle Sam can borrow to pay his (our) bills will need to be increased. The Treasury Department has said it can take "extraordinary measures" to cover the federal debt, giving us a bit more time beyond ...
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• Politicos new myth: Its never easy for House GOP to raise debt ceiling

  
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  "Its never been easy for House Republicans to raise the debt limit." With that opening sentence, Jake Sherman and Steven Sloan of Politico provided air cover for the GOPs unprecedented—and dangerously irresponsible— debt ceiling hostage-taking . After all, Republicans in both houses of Congress had no problem ...
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• North Carolina: A banana republic for dirty energy interests?

  
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  Clean energy opponents turned to dirty tactics to advance a bill repealing North Carolinas renewables program -- and thats not the only example of the states energy policy being hijacked by powerful interests. read more
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