Capital Gains & Dividends Taxes

News

• The Myth that Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves Is Back -- 03/15/2013
• Ending Tax Shelters for Investment Income Is Key to Tax Reform -- 01/31/2013
• After Fiscal Cliff Deal, Warren Buffett Still Pays Low Tax Rate, GE Still Avoids Taxes -- 01/09/2013
• Disturbing Trends in New IRS Data on Income -- 12/05/2012
• Romney's Tax Rate Is Not "Fair," And Neither Are His Tax Policies -- 11/01/2012

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Reports

• Working Paper on Tax Reform Options -- 02/04/2013
• Provisions of the Fiscal Cliff Deal -- 01/10/2013
• Ending the Capital Gains Tax Preference would Improve Fairness, Raise Revenue and Simplify the Tax Code -- 09/20/2012
• Senate Democrats Consider Extending More Tax Breaks for Rich Taxpayers with Dividends than Obama Proposes -- 07/17/2012
• Putting a Face(book) on the Corporate Stock Option Tax Loophole -- 02/07/2012
• How to Implement the Buffett Rule -- 10/19/2011
• Fact Sheet: Four Ways to End Wall Street's Free Ride -- 10/14/2011
• 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
• Policy Options to Raise Revenue by Eliminating or Reducing Tax Subsidies for Wealthy Individuals and Profitable Businesses -- 09/19/2011
• Group of House Democrats Support Tax Preferences for Wealthy Investor Class that President Reagan Ended -- 09/28/2010
• GOP Tax Cut Bill Would Add Almost $7 Trillion to America's National Debt To Further Enrich the Wealthiest -- 08/03/2010
• Senators Defend "Carried Interest" Loophole for Investment Fund Managers in the Name of the Poor, Minorities, Small Businesses and Cancer Patients! -- 06/03/2010
• The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 (a.k.a. the "Extenders" Bill) Would Boost the Economy and Improve Tax Fairness -- 05/20/2010
• Will the "Carried Interest" Loophole Finally Be Closed? -- 05/13/2010
• Tax Provisions in Recent Jobs Legislation -- 03/18/2010
• Joint Statement from CTJ and U.S. PIRG on the "Carried Interest" Loophole -- 03/11/2010
• 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
• CTJ's Suggested Principles for Tax Reform -- 10/16/2009
• McCain's Proposal to Increase the Tax Loophole for Capital Gains Would Be Unfair and Counterproductive -- 10/15/2008
• Time to Stop Subsidizing Wall Street: Eliminate the Tax Loopholes for Capital Gains and Dividends -- 10/01/2008
• Capital Gains and Dividends Tax Cuts Offer Almost No Benefit to Middle-Income Americans and Add to the Nation's Fiscal Problems -- 05/13/2008
• The Wall Street Journal Ignores Facts in Its Crusade for High-Income Tax Cuts -- 02/04/2008
• Congress Should Stop Subsidizing Millionaires Through the Tax Code -- 11/07/2007
• Carried Interest and Real Estate -- 11/07/2007
• Hundreds of Organizations Urge Congress to Eliminate Loophole for Private Equity Fund Managers -- 09/05/2007
• New IRS Data Pegs Cost of Special Low Tax Rates on Capital Gains and Dividends at $92 Billion in 2005 Alone: Three Quarters Goes to Richest 0.6% -- 08/10/2007
• Myths and Facts about Private Equity Fund Managers -- and the Tax Loophole They Enjoy -- 07/19/2007
• Congressional Republicans Defend Tax Cuts With Fuzzy Math -- 05/18/2006
• Conference Committee Tax Plan: Another Tax Cut for the Rich -- 05/12/2006
• Tax Cuts on Capital Gains and Dividends Doubled Bush Income Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest in 2003 -- 04/05/2006
• Who Pays Capital Gains Taxes? (2006 Edition) -- 03/16/2006
• Bush Implies All of His Tax Cuts Were Failures Until 2003 -- 03/14/2006
• Senate and House Tax Reconciliation Bills Compared -- 12/06/2005
• Federal Income Tax Treatment of Capital Gains and Regular Income: Historical Data -- 05/10/2004
• Final Tax Plan Tilts Even More Toward Richest -- 06/05/2003
• Senate Action Makes Bad Tax Plan Much Worse -- 05/16/2003
• Bush 2003 Tax Plan a Big Fat Zero for a Third of Nation's Taxpayers -- 01/27/2003
• Most of Bush's Proposed New 2003 Tax Cuts Would Go to Top 10% -- 01/07/2003
• The House's $212 Billion Special-Interest Love Feast, from the American Prospect -- 10/22/2001
• GOP Hopes Big Wave of Capital Gains Tax Prepayments Will Offset 95 Percent of Tax Plan's Cost in FY 2001 -- 08/13/1999
• Who Pays Capital Gains Taxes? -- 06/26/1998
• Notes on the Budget Surplus and Capital Gains -- 06/23/1998
• Brief Description of and Comments on the 1997 Tax Act -- 08/18/1997
• Gains and Losses -- 02/17/1997
• Regarding Proposed New Tax Subsidies for Capital Gains and Corporate Profits Designed to Gut the Tax Reform Act of 1986 -- 01/25/1995