Obama Tax Policies

News

• On Taxes, Romney Projects onto His Opponent -- 08/31/2012
• Don't Buy Into the Fiscal Cliff Hysteria -- 08/23/2012
• What the Tax Foundation Gets Wrong about the Bush Tax Cuts -- 08/16/2012
• New Reports with State-Specific Data on Bush Tax Cuts -- 08/01/2012
• CTJ Statement on Passage of Senate Democrats' Tax Proposal -- 07/25/2012

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Reports

• The Debate over Tax Cuts: It's Not Just About the Rich -- 07/19/2012
• Senate Democrats Consider Extending More Tax Breaks for Rich Taxpayers with Dividends than Obama Proposes -- 07/17/2012
• Married Couples with Incomes Between $250,000 and $300,000 Would Lose Only 2% of Their Bush Income Tax Cuts under Obama Plan versus GOP Plan -- 07/13/2012
• Bush Tax Cut Proposal Calculator -- 07/10/2012
• President Obama's "Framework" for Corporate Tax Reform Would Not Raise Revenue, Leaves Key Questions Unanswered -- 02/23/2012
• Obama Promoting Tax Cuts at Boeing, a Company that Paid Nothing in Net Federal Taxes Over Past Decade -- 02/16/2012
• President Obama's 2013 Budget Plan Reduces Revenue by Trillions, Makes Permanent 78 Percent of Bush Tax Cuts -- 02/14/2012
• The Revenue Impacts of the Buffett Rule and Other Policy Options -- 02/01/2012
• The President's Speech: Right about Stopping Offshore Tax Dodgers, Wrong about Cutting Taxes for Other Corporations -- 01/26/2012
• State-by-State Figures on Proposed Millionaire Surcharge -- 10/06/2011
• 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
• Comparing a Payroll Tax Holiday to Other Tax Breaks: More Effective than Bush Tax Cuts, Less Effective than Making Work Pay Credit -- 09/06/2011
• Both Sides of Debt Ceiling Talks Propose Increasing the Budget Deficit -- 07/14/2011
• People Who Make $250,000 Should Stop Worrying: Obama's Income Tax Plan Targets those Who Make Over $1 Million -- 05/19/2011
• President Obama's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Would Make Permanent 81 Percent of the Bush Tax Cuts -- 02/18/2011
• Compromise Tax Cut Plan Tilts Heavily in Favor of the Well-Off -- 12/07/2010
• Married Couples with Incomes Between $250,000 and $300,000 Would Lose Only 1% of Their Bush Tax Cuts under Obama Plan versus GOP Plan -- 12/03/2010
• The U.S. Chamber's Fight to Protect Its Richest Corporate CEOs' Wallets -- 11/30/2010
• The Bush Tax Cuts and Small Business -- 11/12/2010
• Will Taxes Cause Former Bush Adviser Greg Mankiw to Work Less? -- 10/22/2010
• State-by-State Estate Tax Figures: Number of Deaths Resulting in Estate Tax Liability Continues to Drop -- 10/20/2010
• Refundable Credits Expanded in the Economic Recovery Act -- 10/19/2010
• Group of House Democrats Support Tax Preferences for Wealthy Investor Class that President Reagan Ended -- 09/28/2010
• Most House Democrats Supporting Tax Cuts for the Rich Have Lower than Average Percentage of High-Income Households in Their Districts -- 09/21/2010
• Republican Approach to Extending the Bush Tax Cuts Would Result in Huge Break for Richest 1% and Higher Taxes for Middle Class, Compared to Obama's Approach -- 09/17/2010
• Myths and Facts about Tax Cuts -- 09/10/2010
• CTJ's Online Tax Calculator -- 09/01/2010
• Allowing the Bush Dividends Tax Cut to Expire for the Richest 2% Will Not Harm Seniors -- 07/22/2010
• Holtz-Eakin Peddles Myths about the Bush Tax Cuts -- 07/16/2010
• Watch CTJ Director Bob McIntyre Testify Before the Fiscal Commission -- 07/02/2010
• Extending Bush Tax Cuts for High-Income "Small Business" Owners Would Further Enrich the Wealthiest Taxpayers While Doing Nothing to Create Jobs -- 05/13/2010
• President Obama Cut Taxes for 98 Percent of Working Americans in 2009 -- 04/13/2010
• CTJ's Legislative Agenda for 2010 -- 02/25/2010
• President Obama's FY2011 Budget: Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes -- 02/10/2010
• President Obama's Revenue Proposals and Other Progressive Revenue Options -- 06/03/2009
• President Obama's Proposals to Raise Revenue -- 05/15/2009
• Myths and Facts about Offshore Tax Abuses -- 05/08/2009
• Obama's Proposals to Address Offshore Tax Abuses Are a Good Start, but More Is Needed -- 05/08/2009
• The Obamas' Tax Returns -- 04/15/2009
• Tax Proposals in President Obama's First Budget [Revised 3/18/2009 to Include New State-by-State Estimates] -- 03/18/2009
• President Obama Should Expand Government Performance Reviews to Include Tax Expenditures -- 03/17/2009
• Impact of Selected Tax Cuts in Final Economic Stimulus Bill, State-by-State -- 02/13/2009
• Claims that Stimulus Tax Cuts Go to "People Who Don't Pay Taxes" Are Intentionally Misleading -- 01/29/2009
• Preliminary Analysis of Obama's Stimulus Tax Cuts: Could Be Worse, Could Be a Lot Better -- 01/09/2009
• The Effects of the Candidates' Tax Plans on Households at Different Income Levels: Examples -- 10/29/2008
• Only 2.5% of Taxpayers Would Lose Some of the Bush Tax Cuts in 2009 Under Obama's Tax Plan: State-by-State Figures -- 10/23/2008
• Obama and McCain Propose New Stimulus Plans, Including More Tax Breaks -- 10/20/2008
• The Tax Proposals of Presidential Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama -- 10/16/2008
• Does Joe the Plumber Need a Tax Cut? -- 10/16/2008
• Obama's Tax Cuts Would Go to the Middle Class, McCain's Would Go to the Wealthy, and Neither Proposes to Increase Federal Revenue -- 09/12/2008
• Only 1% of Taxpayers Would Be Affected By Obama's Proposal to Increase the Social Security Payroll Tax for the Rich -- 07/07/2008