Tax Giveaways for Investors (Capital Gains and Dividends Breaks, Etc.)

News

• New Report: Ending the Capital Gains Tax Preference would Improve Fairness, Raise Revenue and Simplify the Tax Code - 09/20/2012
• Supreme Court Says Fee for Not Buying Health Insurance Is a "Tax." Don't Worry. Hardly Anyone Will Have to Pay It. - 06/29/2012
• What's Really "Nauseating": Tax Subsidies for Bain Capital Partners - 05/22/2012
• CEOs of Tax Dodging Corporations Ask For Personal Tax Breaks, Too - 05/10/2012
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Reports

• Putting a Face(book) on the Corporate Stock Option Tax Loophole - 02/07/2012
• How to Implement the Buffett Rule - 10/19/2011
• Fact Sheet: Four Ways to End Wall Street's Free Ride - 10/14/2011
• The Need for the "Buffett Rule": How Millionaire Investors Pay a Lower Rate than Middle-Class Workers - 09/27/2011
• Fact Sheet: Warren Buffett's Effective Tax Rate Is Typical of Taxpayers with $10 Million or More of Investment Income - 09/27/2011
• Revenue Provisions in the President's Jobs Bill - 09/19/2011
• Policy Options to Raise Revenue by Eliminating or Reducing Tax Subsidies for Wealthy Individuals and Profitable Businesses - 09/19/2011
• Group of House Democrats Support Tax Preferences for Wealthy Investor Class that President Reagan Ended - 09/28/2010
• GOP Tax Cut Bill Would Add Almost $7 Trillion to America's National Debt To Further Enrich the Wealthiest - 08/03/2010
• Allowing the Bush Dividends Tax Cut to Expire for the Richest 2% Will Not Harm Seniors - 07/22/2010
• Senators Defend "Carried Interest" Loophole for Investment Fund Managers in the Name of the Poor, Minorities, Small Businesses and Cancer Patients! - 06/03/2010
• The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 (a.k.a. the "Extenders" Bill) Would Boost the Economy and Improve Tax Fairness - 05/20/2010
• Will the "Carried Interest" Loophole Finally Be Closed? - 05/13/2010
• Tax Provisions in Recent Jobs Legislation - 03/18/2010
• Joint Statement from CTJ and U.S. PIRG on the "Carried Interest" Loophole - 03/11/2010
• CTJ's Legislative Agenda for 2010 - 02/25/2010
• President Obama's FY2011 Budget: Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes - 02/10/2010
• CTJ's Suggested Principles for Tax Reform - 10/16/2009
• McCain's Proposal to Increase the Tax Loophole for Capital Gains Would Be Unfair and Counterproductive - 10/15/2008
• Time to Stop Subsidizing Wall Street: Eliminate the Tax Loopholes for Capital Gains and Dividends - 10/01/2008
• Capital Gains and Dividends Tax Cuts Offer Almost No Benefit to Middle-Income Americans and Add to the Nation's Fiscal Problems - 05/13/2008
• The Wall Street Journal Ignores Facts in Its Crusade for High-Income Tax Cuts - 02/04/2008
• Congress Should Stop Subsidizing Millionaires Through the Tax Code - 11/07/2007
• Carried Interest and Real Estate - 11/07/2007
• Hundreds of Organizations Urge Congress to Eliminate Loophole for Private Equity Fund Managers - 09/05/2007
• New IRS Data Pegs Cost of Special Low Tax Rates on Capital Gains and Dividends at $92 Billion in 2005 Alone: Three Quarters Goes to Richest 0.6% - 08/10/2007
• Myths and Facts about Private Equity Fund Managers -- and the Tax Loophole They Enjoy - 07/19/2007
• Congressional Republicans Defend Tax Cuts With Fuzzy Math - 05/18/2006
• Conference Committee Tax Plan: Another Tax Cut for the Rich - 05/12/2006
• Tax Cuts on Capital Gains and Dividends Doubled Bush Income Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest in 2003 - 04/05/2006
• Who Pays Capital Gains Taxes? (2006 Edition) - 03/16/2006
• Bush Implies All of His Tax Cuts Were Failures Until 2003 - 03/14/2006
• Senate and House Tax Reconciliation Bills Compared - 12/06/2005
• Federal Income Tax Treatment of Capital Gains and Regular Income: Historical Data - 05/10/2004
• Final Tax Plan Tilts Even More Toward Richest - 06/05/2003
• Senate Action Makes Bad Tax Plan Much Worse - 05/16/2003
• Bush 2003 Tax Plan a Big Fat Zero for a Third of Nation's Taxpayers - 01/27/2003
• Most of Bush's Proposed New 2003 Tax Cuts Would Go to Top 10% - 01/07/2003
• The House's $212 Billion Special-Interest Love Feast, from the American Prospect - 10/22/2001
• GOP Hopes Big Wave of Capital Gains Tax Prepayments Will Offset 95 Percent of Tax Plan's Cost in FY 2001 - 08/13/1999
• Who Pays Capital Gains Taxes? - 06/26/1998
• Notes on the Budget Surplus and Capital Gains - 06/23/1998
• Gains and Losses - 02/17/1997
• Regarding Proposed New Tax Subsidies for Capital Gains and Corporate Profits Designed to Gut the Tax Reform Act of 1986 - 01/25/1995