House Republicans like Dave Camp and Paul Ryan ought to seize Mr. Portman's policy opening and make dynamic scoring a formal part of any tax reform effort.
The IoD report says under an open-ended system, a graduate tax becomes the student loan you never pay off and would be "a tax on effort and merit".
Compliance is a central part of the new tax return preparer initiative and the letters are one step in an ongoing compliance effort to ensure tax return preparers are following the new regulations.
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Congress zeroes in on tax issues in an effort to get the economy rolling again.
Back then, focussing government effort and tax breaks on areas of deprivation did little to create new jobs, but merely shifted them from elsewhere.
Zug long was a poor farming region, but in 1947 its leaders began to trim tax rates in an effort to attract companies and the well-heeled.
Exhibit A is the Coalition for Fairness in Tax Compliance, which aims to block proposals it says would unfairly burden small businesses and self-employed folks who comply with the tax law in an effort to catch those who don't.
It intends to use some of the revenues from the RSPT to fund a cut of a couple of percentage points in the general corporation tax, in an effort to boost other Australian businesses and thus rebalance the economy.
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The assembled worthies shook their fists at international tax havens but made no coordinated effort to reduce their own overly high, growth-killing income tax rates.
The Obama Administration says this regulation is part of a global effort to improve tax compliance.
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The prime minister is revamping his cabinet in an effort to force tax increases and spending cuts through parliament.
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The property-tax hike followed an unsuccessful effort to close eight fire stations and seven little-used centres for old people.
It is odd because the Democrats' own plan has jettisoned tax cuts, in an effort to appeal to some Republicans.
Indeed, you can usually improve your tax numbers with a little effort.
Although the tax authorities have put more effort into tackling the problem of alcohol smuggling, the MPs say it has still not been grasped it adequately.
Cloud Computing appears to be another front in the effort to close tax loop holes that have seen many online retailers able charge little to no sales taxes.
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As part of an effort to uncover tax fraud, the U.S. Justice Department in July issued a summons for Swiss banking giant UBS to turn over the names of U.S. clients.
In return for its international bailout, Greece has imposed several rounds of stringent austerity measures, including sweeping spending cuts and a series of tax hikes, in an effort to reform its economy.
As part of an effort to uncover tax fraud, the U.S. Justice Department in July issued a summons for Swiss banking giant UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ) to turn over the names of U.S. clients.
Charles Koch recently praised the Popes, along with other donors, for providing financial support for the 2012 election effort, and tax records show that Pope has given money to at least twenty-seven groups supported by the Kochs, including organizations opposing environmental regulations, tax increases, unions, and campaign-spending limits.
Exactly how much manpower the state tax departments can devote to this effort is unclear.
The revenue was a key motive for the effort to introduce the tax in the first place.
We all have to spend an enormous amount of time and effort to file our tax returns.
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In an effort to widen the tax base, the government proposes to introduce a new property tax.
The bill is part of an effort to eliminate certain tax expenditures and sway the deficit-reduction negotiations driving the legislative agenda.
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Better still would be an effort to reform the tax system and relax labour laws that still hold back the economy.
He backed away from an effort to lift marginal tax rates on the rich, offering instead to raise money by closing loopholes.
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People might accumulate less wealth in an effort to avoid the tax.
The moves by Ensco and Rowan, which operate offshore oil rigs, show how one company's effort to lower its tax rate can spur other shifts.
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