Revenue & Spending

Feb 8, 2016

Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story

As Americans were gathering party supplies to greet the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released their annual report of cumulative tax data reported on the 400 tax r...

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Feb 4, 2016

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans

Chlorine bleach plants across the U.S. put millions of Americans in danger of a chlorine gas release, a substance so toxic it has been used as a chemical weapon. Greenpeace’s new repo...

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Jan 25, 2016

U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facilities decreased by nearly six percent from 2013 levels. Howe...

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Jan 22, 2016

Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.

UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2016): Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed rule to reduce methane emissions...

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Senate Votes to Continue Internet Tax Ban

On April 29, under heavy pressure by the telecommunications industry, the Senate voted 93-3 on S. 150 a bill that extends the moratorium on Internet access taxes for four years from its expiration date of November 1, 2003.

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Will There Be a Budget Resolution?

"Paygo" rules, once a little-known budget technicality, are now proving to be the main impediment in reaching a budget resolution for FY 2005, which begins on October 1, 2004.

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Watcher Newsletter - April 20, 2004

Apr 20, 2004 by Guest Blogger

OMB Watch - The Watcher - April 19, 2004 Vol.5, No.8 -

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Moving Towards A Long-Term Proactive Tax and Budget Initiative

As a community, nonprofit service providers, issue advocates, and policy wonks alike spend most of their time fighting against "bad" policies like program cuts or tax giveaways to the wealthy. Rather than remaining on the defensive, the sector should begin laying the groundwork for a positive vision of what it considers to be sound tax and budget policy.

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Understanding the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax)

The cost of "fixing" the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) is often mentioned as one of the "hidden" tax expenditures that must be addressed.

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Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?

Learn how the federal government spends your income tax dollars, how the tax dollars of the average household are spent in your state (and selected cities and counties), and how your taxes might be spent differently (with trade-offs and the like) by reading the National Priorities Project’s tax day release "Where do your tax dollars go?"

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Bush Tax Shifts

Two recent analyses show that the so-called "Bush tax cuts" are as much about shifting the burden away from wealthy Americans as they are about lower taxes for all.

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The Estate Tax: By the Numbers

The Tax Policy Center has recently posted tables displaying the impact of the estate tax. The analysis shows just how few people would benefit from a repeal of the estate tax:

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Tax Returns - Bush Policy Review

Apr 14, 2004 by Guest Blogger

The Center on Budget and Pollicy Priorities has just released a comprehensive review of Bush's tax policy.

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Federal Estate Tax Calculator - 2004 Law

How much do people pay in estate taxes? Use the calculator below to find out. function calculate(form) { var valid = 1; var estate_value, charity, taxable_estate, estate_tax, bypass; var tax_10; var unified_credit, exemption; var temp; unified_credit = 555800; exemption = 1500000; if(form.estate_value.value.length == 0) estate_value = 0.0; else estate_value = eval(form.estate_value.value); if(form.charity.value.length == 0) charity = 0.0; else charity = eval(form.charity.value) * estate_value;

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