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Alan Auerbach talked aboout a destination-based consumption tax being proposed by House Republicans, which proposes that goods are taxed on where they are consumed rather than where they are…

Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary for International Tax Affairs Robert Stack delivered remarks on the effect of changes in foreign tax laws on efforts to change the U.S. tax code and corpo…

Policy experts talked about helping Americans save more for retirement. They discussed social security, individual retirement accounts, and refundable tax credits. “The State of Research …

Panelists discussed efforts to craft a tax reform package that would reduce rates and the deficit without eliminating tax breaks that benefit large portions of the middle class. Mark Zandi s…

Republican 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain’s senior economic adviser and several tax experts talked about Mr. Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan. The proposal calls for a 9 percent business tax, …

President-Elect Obama wants to include $300 billion in tax cuts as part of his overall economic stimulus package. William Gale talked about the potential impact of the tax cuts for individua…

Treasury officials spoke about the future of tax reform, the state of the economy, proposed plans to make several tax cuts permanent, as well as recent calls for Social Security reform. They…

Kevin Hassett, Economic Policy Studies Director for the American Enterprise Institute, and William Gale, Senior Fellow of Economic Studies for the Brookings Institution, talked about the tax…

At a hearing of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee analysts and private citizens testified about the Bush administration’s economic stimulus proposals. Among the topics they addressed we…

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing. Witnesses testified about financial tactics used by several companies to avoid paying U.S. taxes by moving assets to off-shore holding…

Panelists talk about how federal tax policy impacts personal savings and offered ideas on how tax policy could be altered to promote higher savings rates. They also took questions from the a…

Guests took questions on a variety of issues relating to the various flat tax proposals. They examined the various kinds of flat taxes and how each would change current tax policy. They als…