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Congress Still Struggles With Payroll Tax Cut Proposals

8 December 2011

With the clock ticking away on the deadline for the one year payroll tax cut (this one, as it turns out, is a real deadline), Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are fighting to see who can outmaneuver each other. Both offered proposals to extend the cut today – and both proposals failed. The Democrats [...]

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I’m From The Government And I’m Here To Help

21 October 2011

Twenty five years ago, pop singer Michael Jackson was in the news. Big shoulder pads were all the rage. Libya was under siege. Federal spending outpaced revenues. The U.S. was fighting its way out of a recession. And following a round of tax cuts that didn’t live up to expectations, the words “tax reform” were [...]

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Black Friday, Indeed, for Congress: Vote Looming

19 November 2010

Democratic leaders met this week to talk turkey and decided on two things: A vote on the Bush tax cuts won’t happen until after Thanksgiving; and The Bush tax cuts will be extended for those making $250,000 or less. And that’s all we have. That means there’s a lot, obviously, that we don’t know. Here [...]

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Rangel We Have Heard on High

4 March 2010

Of course, one of the biggest tax stories of the year would hit while I was on the road… But never fear, I’m on it. And by biggest, I mean huge. Representative Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) has been dodging ethics complaints left and right for a few years now. It’s made news for a few [...]

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Obama Releases Tax Returns, Challenges Clinton To Do the Same

26 March 2008

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has released seven years of his tax individual returns this week. The Obama family reported income of $1.65 million in 2005 and nearly $1 million in 2006. During that same period, the family made $137,622 in charitable donations. Prior to 2005, the family seems to have a different financial picture. [...]

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When A Candidate A-tax

16 May 2007

I know, it’s a cheesy title, but I’m banging this out in the middle of a really busy day. Notwithstanding the Philadelphia primaries yesterday (for which I fully intend to follow-up with some en pointe tax questions), I was on the phone this morning with Governor Huckabee’s office getting some good feedback on his tax [...]

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Reality Bytes.

10 May 2007

It’s easy to listen to a few quick sound bytes from the presidential candidates and get confused. It’s also understandable – they have a lot to say and not a lot of time to say it. Following my review of the debates for the GOP and the Dems, I thought I would offer each of [...]

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Housecleaning

8 November 2006

Nobody wants a partisan tax blogger. It’s so… impolitic, if you will. So, I’m not going to offer any real commentary about the election on yesterday in terms of winners and losers. You can do your own Wednesday morning quarterbacking. That said, the face of the House has changed drastically with the loss of 27 [...]

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