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In the 1990’s when I met with Bob Packwood, the Senator from Oregon who was the Senate Finance Committee Chairman in 1986, he told me a story about a request he made to the Senate Judiciary staff in 1986 during the weeks leading up to the passage of the 1986 Tax Reform bill. Packwood said one night he was very tired and some Senators were demanding that changes be made that would produce more income and lower the deficit from the tax cuts. Read More.

The Senate passed the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades early Saturday, with Republicans lining up to approve an overhaul that will touch almost every corner of the United States economy, affecting families, small business owners and multinational corporations, with the biggest benefits flowing to the highest-earning Americans… Read More.

The GOP’s tax plan is likely to advantage wealthy Americans in numerous ways, including with estate-tax and private-tuition benefits. But where the housing market is concerned, proposed changes — particularly in the House version of the bill — are set to disproportionately hurt wealthier homeowners. Read More.

The GOP tax bill has long been expected to boost corporate profits. Now we know just how much the biggest tech companies in the US stand to save — and what that could mean for their bottom lines… Read More.

SOME political theorists argue that the law draws legitimacy not just from voting, but also from public debate before legislation is passed. In voting through a tax-reform bill on December 2nd, Republicans in Congress have tested this principle to destruction. The bill, like most, has its strengths and its weaknesses, but Republicans have rushed it through disregarding the value of consistency and evidence. Their success will weigh on the quality of American government. Read More.

In a recent Hill.com article entitled, Analysis: More than 6,000 lobbyists have worked on taxes in 2017 by Megan Wilson, she clearly illustrates why the Swamp loves to play with the income tax system and is deathly afraid of the FAIRtax… Read More.

As more senators show signs of sacrificing their principles and embracing the Republican tax bill for minor and nebulous concessions, it bears looking more closely at the process that produced this terrible legislation and some of its lesser-known provisions. Read More.

As Republican leaders in the Senate lobbied to secure the votes needed for a drastic overhaul of the U.S. tax system, higher education leaders and student groups have continued to keep the spotlight on provisions in both houses of Congress that would significantly affect – and, they believe, badly hurt – institutions and college-goers alike. Read More.

President-elect Donald Trump’s goal of overhauling the U.S. tax code in 2017 will depend partly on the work of an obscure congressional committee tasked with estimating how much future economic growth will result from tax cuts. Read More.

The Tax Court had bad news for 15 West 17th Street LLC about how strict that rule is. Very, very strict. Read More.

Property owners hoping for a respite from rapidly rising taxes will be disappointed in 2017, when city government and Public Schools will continue digging deeper into their pocketbooks. Read More.

Bloomberg’s Laura Davison discusses Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen’s history with Donald Trump and whether he will remain in the president-elect’s administration. Read More.

Congressional Republicans are considering holding off on repealing some of ObamaCare’s taxes, according to lobbyists familiar with the discussions. Read More.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google saved $3.6 billion in worldwide taxes in 2015 by moving 14.9 billion euros ($15.5 billion) to a Bermuda shell company, new regulatory filings in the Netherlands reveal. Read More.

Taxpayers paid for “excessive and inappropriate” lodging and travel costs, including for one employee who managed to travel 381 days of the year. Read More.