View Federal Tax Policy Analyses: By Category By Date: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 - 1991 Are Taxes Too Concentrated at the Top? Joel Friedman and Isaac Shapiro Revised 12/18/02 24K-HTML, 38K-PDF, 5pp. The Ways and Means Committee's New Tax-Cut Legislation on Capital Losses and Pensions Peter R. Orszag Revised 10/15/02 65K-HTML, 66K-PDF, 12pp. Proposed Senate Tax Cuts For Small Businesses And Farmers Not a Top Priority, Given Budget Outlook And Other Pressures Joel Friedman 9/19/02 27K-HTML, 46K-PDF, 5pp. The Retirement Savings Components of Last Year's Tax Bill: Why it Is Premature to Make Them Permanent Peter R. Orszag 9/18/02 44K-HTML, 32K-PDF, 6pp. House to Consider More Tax Cuts: Even Though Tax Cuts It Has Already Passed Exceed Budget Resolution Targets Joel Friedman and Andrew Lee 9/12/02 55K-HTML, 39K-PDF, 6pp. A New Round of Tax Cuts? William Gale and Peter Orszag Revised 8/23/02 69K-PDF, 12pp. House Passes Health Tax Package That Provides Little Assistance To People with Long-Term Care Needs Edwin Park 8/16/02 30K-HTML, 41K-PDF, 6pp. Social Security And The Tax Cut: A Response to the Concord Coalition Robert Greenstein, Richard Kogan, and Peter Orszag 6/27/02 27K-HTML, 33K-PDF, 8pp. House Ways and Means Committee Health Tax Package Provides Little Assistance to People with Long-Term Care Needs Edwin Park 6/26/02 30K-HTML, 38K-PDF, 5pp. Costs of the Tax Cut and of a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Richard Kogan 6/14/02 28K-HTML, 54K-PDF, 7pp. The House Proposal to Make Marriage Penalty Relief Provisions Permanent 6/13/02 11K-HTML, 45K-PDF, 3pp. The Constitutional Amendment to Require a Two-Thirds Supermajority to Raise Taxes Robert Greenstein and Richard Kogan 6/12/02 41K-HTML, 66K-PDF, 12pp. House "Enron" Pension Legislation Includes Troubling Provisions That Could Harm Rank-and-File Workers Peter R. Orszag 6/5/02 19K-HTML, 47K-PDF, 5pp. Permanent Repeal of the Estate Tax Would Be Costly, Yet Would Benefit Only a Few, Very Large Estates Joel Friedman and Andrew Lee Revised 6/3/02 81K-HTML, 81K-PDF, 15pp. The Cost of The Tax Cut Compared With The Costs of Various Federal Agencies Richard Kogan 4/17/02 6K-HTML, 42K-PDF, 1pp. The Administration's Proposal to Make The Tax Cut Permanent Joel Friedman, Robert Greenstein, and Richard Kogan Revised 4/16/02 52K-HTML, 127K-PDF, 13pp. Are We Soaking The Rich? Isaac Shapiro 4/16/02 9K-HTML, 39K-PDF, 3pp. Tax Foundation Figures Lead to Inaccurate Impression of Middle-Income Tax Burdens Iris J. Lav, Andrew Lee, and Joel Friedman 4/12/02 51K-HTML, 74K-PDF, 12pp. Fact Sheet: The Administration's Proposal to Make the Tax Cut Permanent 4/11/02 9K-HTML, 37K-PDF, 2pp. Tax Foundation Figures Do Not Represent Middle-Income Tax Burdens Iris J. Lav, Andrew Lee, and Robert Greenstein 4/10/02 11K-HTML, 22K-PDF, 3pp. Overall Federal Tax Burden on Most Families - Including Middle-Income Families - at Lowest Levels in More Than Two Decades Isaac Shapiro 4/10/02 29K-HTML, 56K-PDF, 7pp. Social Security and the Tax Cut Richard Kogan, Robert Greenstein, and Peter Orszag Revised 4/9/02 42K-HTML, 69K-PDF, 8pp. A Comparison of The Senate And House Budget Plans - Senate Budget Committee Plan Surpasses House Plan in Realism and Fiscal Prudence But Still Has Shortcomings Richard Kogan and Robert Greenstein 3/28/02 73K-HTML, 88K-PDF, 15pp. Charitable Deduction for Taxpayers Who Do Not Itemize: Proposal Raises Concerns about Effectiveness and Cost Joel Friedman and Robert Greenstein 3/21/02 76K-HTM, 96K-PDF, 19pp. Can Congress Balance the 2003 Budget? Richard Kogan 3-11-02 26K-HTML, 47K-PDF, 6pp. Multi-Year Business Tax Cuts Still Dwarf Aid to Unemployed Workers in New House Bill Joel Friedman and Isaac Shapiro Revised 3/11/02 37K-HTML, 55K-PDF, 7pp. House Opts to Press for More Tax Cuts Rather than Ensure Quick Enactment of Extended Unemployment Benefits Robert Greenstein, Joel Friedman, and Edwin Park Revised 3/4/02 77K-HTML, 78K-PDF, 14pp. Medical Savings Account Provisions in House-Passed Patients' Bill of Rights Could Drive up The Price of Health Insurance Premiums And Increase The Number of Uninsured Edwin Park and Iris J. Lav 2/25/02 39K-HTML, 55K-PDF, 10pp. Middle-Income Taxpayers Will Receive Little or No Benefit from Proposals to Accelerate Implementation of the 25 Percent Rate Robert Greenstein and Joel Friedman Revised 2/15/02 19K-HTML, 43K-PDF, 4pp. Testimony of Iris Lav on Health Care Tax Credits to Decrease the Number of the Uninsured Iris Lav 2/13/02 Oral Testimony: 8K-HTML, 33K-PDF, 2pp. Written Testimony: 64K-PDF, 17pp. Accelerating Implementation of the 25 Percent Income Tax Rate Would Be Ineffective Robert Greenstein and Joel Friedman 2/5/02 17K-HTML, 40K-PDF, 4pp. The Kyl Amendment to Lock in Permanent Repeal of The Estate Tax Joel Friedman 2/5/02 20K-HTML, 46K-PDF, 5pp. President's Budget Uses Accounting Devices And Implausible Assumptions to Hide Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Costs Robert Greenstein Revised 2/5/02 10K-HTML, 33K-PDF, 3pp. The Administration's Proposal to Make The Tax Cut Permanent Joel Friedman and Robert Greenstein 2/4/02 42K-HTML, 64K-PDF, 11pp. The New CBO Projections: What Do They Tell Us? Richard Kogan, Robert Greenstein, and Joel Friedman Revised 1/29/02 29K-HTML, 51K-PDF, 8pp. Future Tax Cuts and the Economy in the Short Run Peter Orszag and Robert Greenstein 1/28/02 42K-HTML, 75K-PDF, 10pp. Amendment Providing Second and Third Years of Bonus Depreciation Would Lessen its Stimulative Effect While Worsening Both the Federal and State Budget Deficits Edwin Park, Andrew Lee and Nicholas Johnson 1/24/02 10K-HTML, 37K-PDF, 2pp. Criticisms of Kennedy Tax Proposal Ignore its Substance and Distort its Impact Joel Friedman, Robert Greenstein, and Andrew Lee 1/22/02 35K-HTML, 50K-PDF, 6pp. Debate over Causes of Deterioration of Surplus Marred by Failure to Distinguish Between Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts Joel Friedman and Robert Greenstein Revised 1/17/02 67K-HTML, 49K-PDF, 6pp. CBO Evaluates Major Stimulus Proposals in New Report Andrew Lee and Joel Friedman 1/9/02 25K-HTML, 47K-PDF, 7pp.