Tag: Taxes

The film industry is widely recognized to be one of the most prolific lobbyists for and recipients of tax breaks and incentives from state and local governments. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Beltway Confidential

Film tax credit handouts are scarier than any horror film

Payton Alexander · September 29, 2017 11:00 am

Tax cuts have nothing to do with "corporate greed"; they have everything to do with job creators creating more jobs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Dear Congress: My cookie business could use a tax cut right about now

Joseph Semprevivo · September 29, 2017 4:01 am

Faced with a separate controversy related to the extravagant travel expenses racked up by members of his Cabinet, the president's aides have struggled to downplay any suggestion that their tax reform plan caters to the wealthy men and women who hold senior positions throughout the administration. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

White House struggles to shake perception that its tax reform plan benefits Trump

Sarah Bedford · September 29, 2017 1:59 am

In 1986, the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)

What the US looked like the last time we had tax reform

Kara Zupkus · September 28, 2017 9:36 pm

This tax proposal could represent another major step in Trump's remaking of the Republican party. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Republican tax plan is revenge on Never Trumpers

Philip Klein · September 28, 2017 9:19 pm

Republicans aren't planning to get rid of the deduction for mortgage interest, but doubling the standard deduction, as they propose, would moot the mortgage deduction for most homeowners. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Gary Cohn is correct: People don’t buy homes because of the mortgage deduction (even Obama’s top economist agrees)

Philip Wegmann · September 28, 2017 9:15 pm

"If we allow a family to keep another $1,000 of their income, what does that mean? They can renovate their kitchen, they can buy a new car, they can take a family vacation, they can increase their lifestyle," he said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Gary Cohn: Families can ‘renovate their kitchen, buy a new car’ with $1,000 in tax savings

Steven Nelson · September 28, 2017 7:33 pm

"American taxpayers care about what they take home. They care about what they have to spend," said Cohn, the director of Trump's National Economic Council. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Gary Cohn: Families care about their own tax cut, not Trump’s

Joseph Lawler · September 28, 2017 7:23 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talks about the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the tax code for individuals and corporations. President Trump and congressional Republicans are writing a far-reaching, $5.8 trillion plan they say would simplify the tax system and nearly double the standard deduction used by most people. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republicans insist tax cuts won’t blow up the deficit

Pete Kasperowicz · September 28, 2017 12:42 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., discuss the Republican tax plan on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump accuses Democrats of opposing tax cuts

Melissa Quinn · September 28, 2017 12:16 pm

It is a fairly traditional and conservative plan in the end. (AP)

Beltway Confidential

The promises and pitfalls of the GOP tax reform framework

Veronique de Rugy · September 28, 2017 1:51 am

The problem is that the provisions the GOP has committed to paper, so far, do not necessarily yield that conclusion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP faces scrutiny on middle-class tax cut claims

Joseph Lawler · September 28, 2017 1:46 am