Tax Fairness and Tax Reform

News

• CTJ Calculates Buffett Rule Would Raise $50 Billion in One Year and Affect Only the Richest 0.08 Percent of Taxpayers - 01/27/2012
• How Obama Could Get Buffett and Romney to Pay at Least 30 Percent in Taxes - 01/25/2012
• Romney Confirms CTJ Calculation of His Super-Low Tax Rate, Demonstrates Why We Need Buffett Rule - 01/17/2012
• Barney Frank, Tax Fairness Champion - 12/02/2011
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Reports

• The Revenue Impacts of the Buffett Rule and Other Policy Options - 02/01/2012
• How to Implement the Buffett Rule - 10/19/2011
• Remembering the Tax Reform Act of 1986 - 10/18/2011
• 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
• Amid Grim Census Data on Poverty, Congress Should Reject Calls to Raise Taxes on Low-Income Families - 09/13/2011
• U.S. Is One of the Least Taxed Developed Countries - 06/30/2011
• 400 Highest-Income Americans Paid an Effective Rate of 18.1% in 2008 - 05/19/2011
• America's Tax System Is Not as Progressive as You Think - 04/15/2011
• CTJ Op-Ed: Sorry, Newt. You Never Balanced the Budget - 03/15/2011
• CTJ Director Robert McIntyre's Testimony on Business Tax Subsidies - 03/09/2011
• CTJ's Statement on the Presidential Fiscal Commission's Plan - 12/02/2010
• The U.S. Chamber's Fight to Protect Its Richest Corporate CEOs' Wallets - 11/30/2010
• Not Just a Tax Cut: CTJ Exposes the Folly of John Boehner's "CutGO" - 11/29/2010
• How to Enact (and Maintain) Tax Reform - 10/26/2010
• Myths and Facts about Tax Cuts - 09/10/2010
• Limiting Tax Expenditures Must Be a Part of Congress's Efforts to Balance the Budget - 04/22/2010
• All Americans Pay Taxes - 04/15/2010
• President Obama Cut Taxes for 98 Percent of Working Americans in 2009 - 04/13/2010
• CTJ's Legislative Agenda for 2010 - 02/25/2010
• Judging Tax Expenditures: Review is Needed for Spending Programs Burried Within the Tax Code - 11/13/2009
• CTJ's Suggested Principles for Tax Reform - 10/16/2009
• Anti-Tax Sentiment Is Even Weaker than the Polls Suggest - 04/15/2009
• Is "Tax Day" Too Burdensome for the Rich? The U.S. Tax System Is Not as Progressive as You Think - 04/13/2009
• Answers to Your Tax Day Questions - 04/13/2009
• Do the Rich Really Pay Over a Third of Their Income in Federal Income Taxes? - 04/10/2009
• Right-Wing Spin Machine Uses Misleading Figures to Argue that the Tax Code Is More Progressive Under Bush - 07/31/2008
• Surtax on Millionaires to Help Veterans Would Be a Tiny Sacrifice for the Richest 0.3 Percent - 05/15/2008
• President Bush Has Made Tax Day Easier for the Rich - at the Expense of Everyone Else - 04/14/2008
• Who's Rich? CTJ Analyzes Presidential Candidates' Definitions of "Rich" - 01/16/2008
• Congressman Rangel's Tax Reform Bill Would Make the Tax Code Simpler and Fairer - and All the Changes Are Paid For - 11/02/2007
• United States Remains One of the Least Taxed Industrial Countries - 04/26/2007
• New "Tax Day" Report: Overall Tax Rates Have Flattened Sharply Under Bush - 04/13/2004
• Peter Jennings "In Search of America" Profile of CTJ Director Bob McIntyre - 09/20/2002
• New York Times Profile of CTJ Director Bob McIntyre - 07/16/2001
• In Defense of the 1986 Tax Reform Act - 01/07/2000
• Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Freeloaders: Four years of continuing, legalized tax avoidance by America's largest corporations, 1981-84 [This 1984 study tells the full story of corporate tax avoidance during President Reagan's first term] - 08/1985
• Just Taxes, and Other Options [This 1984 paper includes a thumbnail history of U.S. income tax policy from the Civil War to 1984, a critique of the "flat tax" and the "progressive consumption tax," and an outline of the real tax reform agenda in the early eighties] - 03/1984