Richard Rubin
covers federal tax policy. He worked at Congressional Quarterly and The Charlotte Observer before joining Bloomberg News in 2010.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, with Deforest Kelley, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, James Doohan, and George Takei, 1984.
IRS’s Star Trek, Gilligan’s Island Videos Challenged by Congressman
Star Trek fans might recognize the Internal Revenue Service as a somewhat Vulcan enterprise — logical, humorless and inscrutable. Rep. Charles Boustany wants to see for himself. The Louisiana Republican is pressing the tax agency to turn over copies of...
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A Home Depot a store in Washington.
Tax Reform: `No Street Signs’
Generalities about the need to lower tax rates obscure the difficulty of rewriting the tax code — and the benefits of some of the oft-derided tax breaks, Representative Richard Neal said today. Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, spoke in Washington to the RATE Coalition, a...
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Congressman Dave Camp with Warren Payne, Policy Director for the Committee, right, before a hearing prep in the House Ways and Means Capitol office in Washington, DC.
House Won’t Pass Tax Bill Without Code Overhaul: Beeman
Senate Democrats’ attempts to raise taxes this year will run into a problem: a House determined to starve it of revenue bills. Under the Constitution, revenue measures must start in the House, limiting the Senate’s ability to raise or lower...
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of the 2014 Budget Resolution as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 12, 2013.
Ryan Needs $5.7 Trillion in Taxes to Meet Budget Goals: Policy Center
House Republicans would need to eliminate about $5.7 trillion in tax breaks over the next decade to meet the targets in their budget, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said today. The budget, which will be on the House floor next...
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Larry Ellison, chief executive officer of Oracle Corp., at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Techs, Pharmaceuticals Seek Territorial Taxation
Technology and pharmaceutical companies such as Cisco Systems, Oracle and Johnson & Johnson have formed a new coalition to push for lighter taxes on income earned outside the U.S. The LIFT America Coalition — that’s Let’s Invest for Tomorrow —...
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People walk through the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington.
Federal Worker Tax-Delinquency Up — Federal Reserve Above Average
There are some 311,566 federal workers and retirees delinquent in their federal taxes. They owe the government $3.5 billion, according to the Internal Revenue Service. That was as of 2011. The number of delinquents was up by 11.5 percent. Still,...
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People walk as snow falls during a late winter storm at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 6, 2013.
Tax Rewrite Plan — Snarled by Storm — Set for Release Next Week
The snow-delayed draft of proposed tax changes for small businesses will be unveiled next week — weather cooperating, of course — by Representative Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The proposal, which Camp had intended to release...
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Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner leaves after a media availability on Feb. 25, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Boehner: Tax Overhaul No. 1 Bill
The best seat in the House belongs to a tax-code overhaul. House Speaker John Boehner is reserving the bill number HR 1 for the rewrite of the tax code, according to Kevin Smith, a spokesman for the Ohio Republican. It’s...
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A papaya tree in Hawaii.
Papaya’s Tax-Break: How Sweet It Is
In today’s object lesson on tax complexity, the object is a papaya. The Internal Revenue Service issued a notice today removing the orange-fleshed, seed-filled fruit from a sort of agricultural-tax watch list — plants such as almonds, mangoes, persimmons and...
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A police officer rides a bicycle past the Capitol on Feb. 12, 2013.
CBO Addresses Camp Criticism of Global Tax Study
The Congressional Budget Office says it should have sought more outside voices to look at a Jan. 8 report on international tax policy options. The nonpartisan agency responded today to concerns raised by Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means...
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