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Economic and tax policy experts talked about the processes used by the government in drafting and assessing budgets, and the steps taken to communicate and explain those figures to Congress …

Advisory Panel members and other experts testified about proposed reforms of the federal tax code. Topics included the Alternate Minimum Tax, simplification of the individual tax form, tax b…

The committee held a hearing on charitable giving, accountability and financial record-keeping by non-profit organizations, and transparency issues aimed at a range of alleged abuses by non-…

The panelists at this event hosted by the Urban Institute talked about tax policy and the impact of tax policy on the 2004 election. Among the specific issues addressed were the functions of…

Eric Engen, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar, moderated an American Enterprise Institute panel discussion about recent tax cuts and the affects on worker productivity.

The American Enterprise Institute held a forum on Tax Policy, the panel talked about the Political Economy of Tax Reform.

Panelists talk about how federal tax policy impacts personal savings and offered ideas on how tax policy could be altered to promote higher savings rates. They also took questions from the a…

The speakers discussed the social and economic effects of U.S. tobacco use. Topics included the proposed use of cigarette taxes to fund health care reform and justifications for increasing c…

The Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air convened a hearing on the health effects of second-hand tobacco smoke. Members of President Bill Clinton’s administration, t…

Members of the committee held a hearing to discuss tax proposals in the Bush administration’s fiscal year 1993 federal budget. This hearing was just one of a series of public forums being he…

The committee heard testimony on legislation that would make individual retirement accounts fully tax deductible as an effort to stimulate the economy through saving. Committee chairman Bent…

The scholars examined the effects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. They appraised the act on the basis of equity, efficiency and simplicity and examined the prospects for the future.

The Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on the George H.W. Bush administration’s proposal to lower the tax rate on capital gains income and to examine investment trends in the United St…