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• Corporate Income Taxes in the 1990's - 10/2000
• House-Passed Social Security Cut Benefits Few Taxpayers - 07/31/2000
• Distributional Analysis of Congress-Passed and Pending Tax Bills in 2000 - 07/28/2000
• Distributional Analysis of Democratic Alternative Tax Plan - 07/28/2000
• Congress-Passed Marriage Penalty Bill "More of the Same" - 07/21/2000
• Hatch's "Tax Simplification" Plan Would Mainly Benefit High Earners - 06/19/2000
• Distributional Analysis of House GOP and Democratic Marriage Penalty Bills - 02/11/2000
• CTJ Analysis of Senate Minimum Wage Bill - 11/08/1999
• Minimum Wage Plan Targets Three-Quarters of Its Tax Breaks to Top 1% - 10/18/1999
• GOP Leaders Distill Essence of Tax Plan: Surprise! It's Corporate Welfare! - 09/14/1999
• Corporate Welfare Rides Again: Business Giveaways in the 1999 Tax Bill - 08/17/1999
• Don't Spend that $160 Tax Cut Right Away: GOP Tax Plan Offers Wealthy and Corporations Immediate Relief; Others Must Wait - 08/12/1999
• Distributional Analysis of Congressional Conference Committee Tax Bill - 08/05/1999
• Distributional Analysis of Senate Democratic Alternative Tax Plan - 07/28/1999
• Senate GOP Tax Plan: Not So Middle Class After All - 07/27/1999
• House GOP Tax Plan Analyzed - 07/27/1999
• Torricelli-Coverdell-McCain "Middle Class" Tax Cut Plan Leaves Out Most of Middle Class - 07/09/1999
• There Is No Surplus: Op-Ed on the Projected Federal Budget Surplus - 07/09/1999
• CTJ Analysis of Proposed GOP Capital Gains Tax Cut - 07/07/1999
• Roth Proposes to Turn Public Schools Into Tax Shelters for Corporations and the Wealthy - 06/18/1999
• What the Administration Proposes to Do with the Projected Budget Surpluses Over the Next Five Years - And Beyond - 02/19/1999
• Ways & Means Chairman's Figures Confirm CTJ's: 10% Income Tax Cut is Heavily Tilted Toward Best-off - 02/17/1999
• CTJ Analysis of GOP 10 Percent Tax Cut Plan. - 01/20/1999
• CTJ Analyzes House-passed 1998 Tax Plan. - 09/17/1998
• Gingrich's Tax Plan Raids Social Security - 07/31/1998
• Why Sunsetting the Tax Code is Irresponsible Tax Policy - 07/30/1998
• Notes on the $500 Child Credit: A Case Study in Tax Complexity. Testimony of Robert McIntyre before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight - 06/23/1998
• Why Not Tax Reform? [Robert S. McIntyre, Editorial from The Nation] - 04/27/1998
• '97 Tax Law: The Same Old Flaws [Response to Op-Ed by Rep. Nancy Johnson. Letter to the Editor of the Hartford Courant] - 04/25/1998
• '97 Tax Act Gives Big Fat Zero to Most Families This April - 03/31/1998
• Brief Description of and Comments on the 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act - 09/15/1997
• Tax Changes Under 1997 Act Vary Widely By State - 08/06/1997
• 1997 Tax Plan Violates President's 'Principles' - 07/31/1997
• More Corporate Giveaways High on Congressional Agenda - 07/22/1997
• President Clinton's Tax Plan Analyzed - 07/07/1997
• Final Senate Tax Plan Favors Rich - 07/07/1997
• Cost Pegged at Twice "Official" Estimates - 07/03/1997
• Explanation of Differences Between CTJ and Congressional Distributional Tables and Comparison with Treasury's Analyses - 07/02/1997
• How Much Will the Capital Gains Tax Cuts Really Cost? - 07/01/1997
• Distributional Analysis of House Tax Plan - 06/27/1997
• House Democratic Alternative. Distributional Table Released - 06/1997
• Child Credit Versus other Provisions. Give Americans Their Tax Break. - 06/1997
• Child Credit Limitations. Child Credit Would Go to Only Half of Children Nationally. A State-By-State Analysis - 06/24/1997
• Impact of Tax Cuts Combined With Entitlement Cuts [Study With Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] - 06/23/1997
• Distributional Analysis of Archer's Tax Plan, Sen. Roth's Tax Plan, Rangel's Tax Plan, and a Comparison of All Three - 06/23/1997
• Whither Tax Simplification?Why the Tax Plans Will Make Tax Returns More Complicated - 06/01/1997
• How They'll Cook the Books on the 1997 "Balanced Budget" Tax Cuts. - 05/1997
• Gingrich-Forbes Plan to Repeal Capital Gains & Estate Taxes Would Balloon Deficit to Aid the Very Richest - 04/13/1997
• Latest Senate GOP Plan Would Increase Taxes on Most - 03/20/1997
• A (Belated) Happy Income Tax Freedom Day! [Robert S. McIntyre & Michael P. Ettlinger] - 02/17/1997
• Notes for Tax Day - 04/12/1996
• Thrown for a Loop. Robert S. McIntyre [The New Republic] - 3/1/1996
• Past Decade's Federal Tax Changes Have Reduced Budget Deficit-And Cut Taxes On Most Families - 12/13/1995
• Rich Are Big Winners, Poor Are Losers Under House Tax Plans - 11/17/1995
• Congressional Tax Cut Plan: Unfair and Busts the Budget. House-Senate Conference Agreement tax provisions including capital gains tax cut and child credit - 11/17/1995
• Archer Calls for Ultra-Complex Double-Filing Tax System - 07/28/1995
• Notes on Dick Armey's Revised "Flat Tax." - 7/26/1995
• Are the Rich Really Overtaxed? [Robert S. McIntyre, The Washington Post] - 07/20/1995
• Hidden Welfare for the Rich and Corporations Costs US Hundreds of Billions a Year - 4/24/1995
• Most of GOP Tax Plan Expands Corporate & High-Income Loopholes - 04/05/1995
• GOP $500 Child Rebate Disappears Quickly For Families Who Need It Most. - 04/04/1995
• Burden Will Fall Heavily On the Poor [Robert S. McIntyre, The Item] - 3/29/1995
• GOP Claims to Balance Budget Without Tax Hikes Are Belied by Concealed Tax Increase Proposals - 03/16/1995
• Taxing the Poor [Robert S. McIntyre, The New Republic] - 1/30/1995
• Testimony of Robert S. McIntyre Before the House Ways and Means Committee Regarding Proposed New Tax Subsidies for Capital Gains and Corporate Profits Designed to Gut the Tax Reform Act of 1986 - 1/25/1995
• Cost of GOP Capital Gains Tax Cuts Pegged at Double Official Total - 1995
• House Gives Far More Than It Takes in "Corporate Welfare" - 1995
• Collecting Current Tax from American Resident Individuals and US-Based Multinational Corporations on Income Earned Through Foreign Entities [Statement of Michael J. McIntyre, Professor of Law, Wayne State University, Detroit, before the Senate Finance Committee] - 1995
• Republican Proposal to Repeal the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax Offers Tax Relief to Oil Companies & Other Would-Be Freeloaders - 1995
• Return of the No-Tax Corporations - 1995
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Before the Senate Budget Committee; America's Schools: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century - 03/04/1994
• Taxing Health Insurance Premiums: The Latest Wrinkle - 1994
• Notes on Health Care Reform Financing & Related Issues - 1994
• CTJ's Tax Program. Citizens for Tax Justice - 12/1993
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Regarding the Tax Treatment of Health Care Organizations Before the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures House Committee on Ways and Means - 12/14/1993
• Social Insecurity [Robert S. McIntyre, The New Republic] - 11/22/1993
• The 1993 Budget Act - (Mainly) A Victory for Tax Fairness. CTJ Update [Douglas P. Kelly & Robert S. McIntyre] - 11/1993
• "A Major Victory for the American People"; CTJ Praises Conference Budget Plan - 08/03/1993
• Stuff the Loopholes, Save the Middle Class. Why the Senate Tax Bill is Better than the House Version - 07/13/1993
• CTJ Calls on Senate to Replace Lost Energy Tax Revenues by Cutting Tax Subsidies - 06/11/1993
• Exaggerated Tax Package. & A Trillion Here... [Robert S. McIntyre, The Washington Post] - 06/05/1993
• Notes on a Value Added Tax [Robert S. McIntyre] - 5/25/1993
• Some Problems with the Clinton 1993 Tax Program. - 05/18/1993
• Distribution of 1993 Clinton Tax Plan
• CTJ Criticizes Gas & Energy Tax Hikes; "President Should Stick by His Tax Fairness Principles." - 02/09/1993
• Avoiding a Fiscal Dunkirk [Robert S. McIntyre, The American Prospect] - 01/01/1993
• Journal of Graphic Fantasies: Progressivity and Income Tax Revenue [Robert S. McIntyrem, American Prospect] - 1993
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Regarding Tax Write-Offs for Meals and Entertainment and President Clinton's Proposed Reform Thereof, before the Senate Committee on Finance - 1993
• New GAO Report Illustrates Need for Multinational Tax Reform - 1993
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Regarding the Taxation of Capital Gains Before the Mock House Committee on Ways and Means - 1993
• Notes on a Carbon Tax - 12/1992
• Critical Notes On "The Progressive Consumption Tax." [Robert S. McIntyre] - 10/1992
• Fudging the Numbers [Robert S. McIntyre, The Washington Post] - 09/12/1992
• Reckless Republican Tax Plan Would Slash Income Taxes by 40% & Add $250 Billion a Year or More to the Budget Deficit. - 08/10/1992
• New CBO Analysis of Flat Tax Confirms CTJ's Critique of Brown Plan - 4/21/1992
• Brown's 'Postcard' Tax Form Is a 'Total Fraud' - 3/27/1992
• The Facts About Jerry Brown's Proposed Flat Rate Income Tax & National Sales Tax - 3/16/1992
• Is There a Tax-Cut Path Through This Thorny Recession? No: Tax Breaks Only Distort Investment and Undermine the Market's Efficiency [Robert S. McIntyre, The Washington Post] - 03/09/1992
• CTJ Blasts Tsongas 50 cent Gas Tax Hike: "Regressive and Regionally Biased" - 3/4/1992
• Bill Clinton's Tax Record As Governor of Arkansas, 1979-81 and 1983-91 - 3/1/1992
• Capital Gains for the Wealthy [Robert S. McIntyre, The Washington Post] - 3/1/1992
• Bush's Costly Tax-Shelter Plan is Even Worse. The Horrible House Tax Plan: Disappearing Middle-Income Tax Relief + Phony Tax Hikes on the Rich = Bad Economic Policy & an Attack on Tax Reform - 02/21/1992
• Capital Gains Tax Cut: Bush Says "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" But History Says "No, No, No." - 2/1/1992
• Revolting Taxes and the Reagan Devolution [Robert S. McIntyre & Michael P. Ettlinger, In These Times] - 01/22/1992 - 01/28/1992
• Return of the Merger Maniacs. Why is the White House Pushing New Incentives for Acquisitions? [Robert S. McIntyre, The Washington Post] - 1992
• The Decline of US Corporate Taxes - 1992
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Concerning the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax, before the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation - 1992
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Concerning Middle-Class Tax Relief, Tax Equity and Fairness, and Various Anti-Growth, Tax-Shelter Initiatives; Submitted to the House Committee on Ways and Means - 12/17/1991
• CTJ Calls for Straightforward, Revenue-Neutral Middle-Class Tax Cut, Cautions Congress to Avoid Anti-Growth Tax-Shelter Initiatives - 12/17/1991
• Behind All the Tax Proposals Is the "Shocking" Redistribution of Income in Favor of Wealthy [Robert S. McIntyre, ROLL CALL Finance Policy Briefing] - 12/09/1991
• Republican & Democratic Tax Plans Offer Clear Choice to Public - 11/27/1991
• Borrow 'N' Squander [Robert S. McIntyre, The New Republic] - 09/30/1991
• Gephardt and CTJ Release Report: Middle Class Paying More and Getting Less, Tax Cuts for the Rich Fuel Deficit - 09/12/1991
• Past Decade Saw Tax Hikes on Middle Class, Huge Tax Cuts for Richest 1%; Government Services Down While Middle-Income Families Foot Bill for Deficit - 09/12/1991
• Inequality & the Federal Budget Deficit: 1991 Edition [Robert S. McIntyre] - 09/1991
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Concerning Trends in Income and Taxes Before the Senate Budget Committee - 02/22/1991
• CTJ Calls for End to Tax Breaks for "Runaway Plants" - 1991
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre In Support of H.R. 2889, The American Jobs and Manufacturing Preservation Act of 1991, Before the House Committee on Ways and Means - 1991
• The Wealthy Still Got Away - Op-ed on 1990 Tax Package [Robert S. McIntyre, The San Jose Mercury News] - 11/04/1990
• Tax Shift to Middle Class Focus of New CTJ Book. Key Issues: Who Caused Deficit? Who Should Pay to Solve It?. Kevin Phillips and economists Steuerle, Bosworth and Quinn Review Economics and Politics of Tax Fairness - 10/22/1990
• A Soaking (in Gravy) for the Rich. An Analysis of the 1990 Budget Agreement[Robert S. McIntyre, The New York Times] - 10/03/1990
• Tax Provisions in the Budget Summit Agreement: Preliminary Analysis - 10/02/1990
• The Capital Gains Debate: A Guide for the Perplexed - 2/1/1990
• Tax Hikes from Deficit Package Will Be Roughly Even Across Nation. State-by-state analysis of the 1990 deficit reduction package's tax consequences - 1990
• Tax the Wealthy-All Over This Land. The move to limit federal deductions for local income taxes is unfair and partisan [Robert S. McIntyre, Newsday] - 08/29/1990
• Testimony of Michael P. Ettlinger before The Commission on Tax Fairness and Government Cost Effectiveness - 08/22/1990
• If You're Middle Class, You're Getting Soaked [Robert S. McIntyre & Bruce Fisher, Los Angeles Times] - 07/22/1990
• 7.5% Surtax on Unearned Income of Wealthy & Corporations Would Fund S&L Bail-Out Without Burdening Middle-Income Families - 07/17/1990
• Reagan's Reverse Robin Hoods [Bruce Fisher, In These Times] - 07/1990
• Withholding Fire [Robert S. McIntyre & Bruce Fisher, The New Republic] - 06/18/1990
• CTJ to Budget Summit: Close Loopholes - Don't Soak Middle-Income Families. CTJ Recommends Deficit-Cutting Tax Reforms As Alternative to Regressive Tax Hikes - 06/21/1990
• The Tax Rate "Bubble," Notes on the Backward Bend In Personal Income Tax Rates - 06/01/1990
• Source of Budget Deficit: Tax Breaks for Top 1 Percent. New Calculation Shows Tax Cuts for Top Hundredth Have Added $860 Billion to National Debt - 05/22/1990
• Tax Shift to Middle Class Focus of CTJ Conference Key Issues: Who Caused Deficit? Who Should Pay to Solve It? Rep. Dorgan, Steurle, Bosworth and Phillips to Review Economics and Politics of Tax Fairness. Sen. Bradley & Sara Lee Chief to Challenge the "Loophole Lobby" - 05/17/1990
• Are the Democrats Really So Stupid? [Robert S. McIntyre, The New York Times] - 05/14/1990
• Taxes and the Poor: The Reaganites and the Renegade. Assessing Reaganomics [Robert S. McIntyre, The American Prospect,] - 01/01/1991
• Notes on Personal Savings, IRAs, Pensions, Etc. - 04/04/1990
• Growth & Equity: Tax Policy Challenges for the 90's [Edited by Bruce Fisher & Robert S. McIntyre] - 1990
• Assessing the 1990 Tax Plan [Robert S. McIntyre] - 1990
• CTJ's Response to the "Rostenkowski Challenge" - 03/16/1990
• Extending the "Bubble" Is NOT a Good Trade-Off for a Capital Gains Tax Loophole - 1990
• Indexing Capital Gains is a Bad Idea - 1990
• Pro-Fair Taxes, Anti-Capital Gains Loophole Campaign Kicks Off Today Voters to "Send Their Crumbs Back" - 1990
• Notes on the Alternative Minimum Tax: Current Law and Proposals for Reform - 1990
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre and Bruce Fisher On the Shortfall in Federal Corporate Income Tax Receipts, before the Senate Finance Committee - 1990
• Statement of Bruce L. Fisher before the House Committee on Small Business Concerning the Taxation of Capital Gains - 11/1/1989
• Corporate Tax Abuses Wane. Most Avoidance Succumbs to Reform; Alternative Minimum Tax a Key - 10/26/1989
• Dorgan Capital Gains Plan, "Beards Bush, Boll Weevils," says CTJ - 9/1/1989
• Tax Deform: A Primer on a Stupid Idea [Robert S. McIntyre, The New Republic] - 8/1/1989
• Facts About President Bush's Proposal to Give the Richest Americans a $25,000-a-Year Tax Cut - 02/10/1989
• Wake Up, Middle America! Congress Is About to Pass Another Tax Cut for the Rich [Robert S. McIntyre] - 1989
• It's Working But... - 1989
• Statement of Robert S. McIntyre Concerning H.R. 2493, The Utility Customer Refund Act of 1989 and H.R. 1150, The Utility Ratepayer Refund Act of 1989 - 1989
• 1986 Tax Reform Trimmed Abuses, Leveled Corporate Playing Field. Zero tax club shrinks; many defense contractors ante up. Investment up, but some shell games and loopholes remain - 9/22/1988
• Neo-Voodoo Economics [Robert S. McIntyre & Jonathan Crystal, The New Republic] - 2/1/1988
• The Child Care Crisis: Are Tax Credits the Answer? An Analysis of Seven Child Care Tax Credit Bills - 1988
• The Corporate Tax Comeback - 1988
• No Sale: Lessons for America From Sales Taxes in Europe [Robert S. McIntyre and David C. Wilhelm] - 1988
• Tax the Forbes 400! [Robert S. McIntyre, The New Republic] - 8/31/1987
• Meeting the Revenue Targets in the 1988 Budget; Will Tax Reform Be Extended or Undermined? [Robert S. McIntyre] - 1987
• 130 Reasons Why We Need Corporate Tax Reform - 1986
• The Tax Reform Act of 1986 - 1986
• Undermining America: Corporate Loopholes and the Trade Deficit - 1986
• Unfair Share: The Case Against Federal Sales Taxes [Robert S. McIntyre, David Wilhelm] - 1986
• Money for Nothing: The Failure of Corporate Tax Incentives 1981-1984 [Robert S. McIntyre & David Wilhelm - 1986
• Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Freeloaders - 1985
• The Failure of Corporate Tax Incentives - 1985
• Corporate Income Taxes in the Reagan Years: A Study of Three Years of Legalized Tax Avoidance - 1984
• Just Taxes & other options [Robert S. McIntyre] - 1984
• Inequity & Decline; How the Reagan Tax Policies Are Affecting the American Taxpayer and the Economy [Robert S. McIntyre & Dean C. Tipps] - 1983