As House Speaker John Boehner and other Republican leaders in Congress continue to assert that tax increases even on the very wealthiest Americans are “off the table,” one rationale sometimes advanced for this view is that Americans who work hard and become successful have to pay over a third of their income in federal income taxes. However, data recently released from the IRS show that this is not remotely true.

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Recent articles in the New York Times and the Fiscal Times entertain the notion that President Obama's income tax plan will result in unaffordable tax increases for families who make $250,000 a year. One theme of these articles is that in some parts of the country, $250,000 is really not very much to raise a family on. A new report from CTJ explains that this is wrong on several levels.

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Testimony of CTJ's Senior Counsel for Federal Tax Policy, Rebecca Wilkins, in favor of new bank regulations to prevent tax evasion by foreigners.

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CTJ wrote to urge the House Judiciary Committee to reject the so-called “Business Activity Tax Simplification Act” (BATSA). This legislation would make state and local taxes on businesses dramatically more complex, increase litigation related to business taxes, increase government interference in the market and reduce revenue to state and local governments by billions of dollars each year.

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