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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Taxes

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | IRS headaches mean pain for taxpayers
All in a few years, Congress has saddled the Internal Revenue Service with the biggest expansion of federal benefits in a generation and a sweeping crackdown on offshore tax-dodgers, on top of its more mundane responsibilities of processing tax returns.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
WSJ | A Better Path to Corporate Tax Reform
Last week Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden became the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Even as a liberal Democrat, he has supported two key goals of corporate tax reform: reducing the U.S. corporate tax rate and repatriating corporate profits held abroad. Sen. Wyden's challenge will be implementing these goals without increasing the federal debt.