Tag: Taxes

Tuesday Morning Quarterback: It’s Tax Breaks for College Football Trump Should Care About

Gregg Easterbrook · October 17, 2017 2:30 pm

Trump vs. H&R Block

Tony Mecia · October 17, 2017 1:12 pm

"The tax reform goals are shared by many," McConnell, R-Ky., said during a Senate floor speech Monday. "To get there, we first need to pass the budget before us." (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Mitch McConnell: We must pass a budget to get to tax reform

Susan Ferrechio · October 16, 2017 8:58 pm

Last week, House Republicans led by Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., mulled a compromise on the original plan of eliminating a federal deduction for state and local taxes in order to address the concerns of members in blue states like New York and New Jersey. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

State, local conservative legislators tell GOP to kill state tax deduction

Joseph Lawler · October 16, 2017 7:54 pm

President Trump compared the tax reform effort with former President Barack Obama's push to pass Obamacare, and noted that the Democrat-led Congress didn't pass that bill until well into Obama's second year in office. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump hedges on getting tax reform this year

Joseph Lawler · October 16, 2017 6:22 pm

The priority for the administration, Cohn said, is getting legislation passed this year, even if that means keeping Congress in over the holidays or working seven days a week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump will be ‘very flexible’ on tax bill details, Gary Cohn says

Joseph Lawler · October 16, 2017 2:37 pm

For decades, the SALT deduction has encouraged liberal states to raise their taxes without making their taxpayers feel they're actually paying more. When state income taxes rise, taxpayers are simply able to deduct it from their federal taxes to offset. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Cut SALT from the GOP tax reform diet

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2017 1:44 pm

A new White House study found President Trump's goal of decreasing the corporate tax rate would increase the average family's income between $4,000 and $9,000 each year. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: All Democrats can do is ‘increase taxes and obstruct’

Anna Giaritelli · October 16, 2017 12:54 pm

The tax cuts referred to by Trump were signed by then-Gov. Mike Pence in May 2013 and included the immediate elimination of the state's inheritance tax as well as reductions in the state's personal and corporate income tax rates. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)

Indiana’s tax cuts haven’t led to ‘higher paychecks’

Washington Examiner Staff · October 16, 2017 4:01 am

The medical device tax was created to help fund Obamacare. It charges a 2.3 percent tax on the sale of certain medical devices such as pacemakers and imaging devices like MRIs. More low-tech devices such as surgical gloves and contact lenses do not pay the tax.

Insurers, device makers try to kill return of Obamacare taxes

Robert King · October 16, 2017 4:01 am

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said there were economic and philosophical reasons for gutting the so-called "death tax." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Steven Mnuchin concedes: Killing estate tax ‘disproportionately helps rich people’

Diana Stancy Correll · October 14, 2017 3:56 am

It's not certain that Republicans will be able to pass a budget which is necessary to unlock the reconciliation process. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Ted Cruz says Senate should go ‘much bigger’ than a $1.5 trillion tax cut

Joseph Lawler · October 13, 2017 2:41 pm