Outside the Beltway

The projections were way off—in a good way.

Some New York Republicans are fighting for their constituents and against the GOP leadership.

Making it harder for the little guy.

The largest adjustment since the tax code was indexed in 1985.

A sweet story gets a wee bit more complicated.

Is that right? If so, is it reasonable?

When you tax sin, you need more of it.

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

And a comment on news coverage of the passage.

The Schumer-Manchin compromise includes a massive increase in the tax collection budget.

An interesting but rather misleading report from a Biden Treasury official.

For now, at least, it can shift millions of its earnings to Luxembourg.

President Biden’s pollster has made an amazing discovery.

A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.

A George Mason economist has an intriguing idea but maybe he has it backwards.

An interesting proposal to improve tax collection.

The Times investigation sheds more light on what most of us already knew.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

An unintended consequence of the Cares Act.

The California Supreme Court has struck down a state law purporting to require a candidate for President to release their tax returns,

Contrary to the promises of December 2017, the Republican tax cuts are not paying for themselves. Instead, they are helping lead us to trillion-dollar deficits.

We shouldn’t need bad arguments to sell good policies.

A Federal Judge rejected the President’s effort to block a New York City prosecutor from obtaining copies of his tax returns.

Late last week, a Federal Judge in California placed on hold a state law requiring candidates to provide copies of their tax returns.

President Trump and the Republican Party have spent the last three years lying about the Federal budget deficit and the economy.

Late last week, a Federal Judge blocked a California law requiring candidates for President and other offices to make copies of their tax returns public.

The Trump campaign and several other parties have filed lawsuits challenging California’s new law requiring candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns.

Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a New York State law that would allow Congress to obtain copies of his state tax returns.

President Obama wanted to end it but his former VP used it to his advantage.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that will make it easier for Congress to get President Trump’s tax returns.

As expected, the House Ways & Means Committee is suing Treasury Secretary Mnuchin over his refusal to provide the committee with copies of the President’s tax returns.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has informed Congress that he will not comply with a subpoena seeking the President’s tax returns, meaning that we’re headed for a court battle.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted to issue a subpoena the President’s tax returns, but whether it will ever see them is unclear.

The Treasury Secretary is declining to comply with a Congressional request for the President’s tax returns. Whether this is proper is a question that will have to be resolved by the courts.

The IRS is outgunned.

Those making under $66,000 aren’t supposed to have to pay. But good luck figuring out how to avoid it.

A bipartisan bill will protect the tax preparation industry at the expense of the citizenry.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

It’s a lot harder than it looks.

The business of the news is business–and it’s a weird business.

A new study reveals that the Republican tax cut package passed at the end of 2017 has not had the economic impact the GOP claimed it would.

Presidents Trump and Xi have agree to a “90 day cease fire” on new tariffs. This means that Trump will not raise tariffs on Chinese imports that were scheduled to take effect on January 1st of next year. The tariffs will go into effect if the two countries cannot reach an agreement within that 90 day time frame.

Donald Trump is talking about a tax cut that appears to exist only in his own mind.

Republicans passed a tax cut bill in December they hoped would help in the midterm elections. It has turned out to be a big dud.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

Contrary to what they believed back in December. Republicans are finding that the tax reform bill is not helping them in the midterm elections.

The Federal Budget Deficit is set to end the Fiscal Year close to $1 trillion, and to continue growing after that.

Trump’s trade war will claw back 25% of the growth in GDP, slightly more than 20% of the wage growth and more than wipe out all the jobs his tax cuts would provide.

Deficits continue to rise.

New York and several other states have filed an incredibly dubious lawsuit against the Republican’s new tax law.