Tag: Taxes

Beltway Confidential

How to delay Obamacare

Michael Barone · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Europe Leads the Way?

Ike Brannon · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said Congress would likely reach a deal by the Thursday night's debt ceiling deadline that would put off the majority of fiscal fights until some months down the road. (AP File)

Rob Portman, Dick Durbin predict a short-term debt deal by Thursday

Susan Crabtree · October 13, 2013 4:00 am

Sarah Hall Ingram, director of the Affordable Care Act Office at the Internal Revenue Service, looks over papers while testifying before theÃÂ House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

House GOP grills Obamacare IRS official on scandals

Steve Contorno · October 9, 2013 4:00 am

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Beltway Confidential

Union leader calls for hike in gas taxes

Sean Higgins · October 9, 2013 4:00 am

A proposal to reconfigure 501(c)(4) advocacy groups could suffocate political speech. (Photo: Thinkstock)

IRS heist of premium subsidies could wreck Obamacare

Diana Furchtgott-Roth · October 9, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Chamber of Commerce sees chance to ‘effect meaningful change’ in budget fights

Sean Higgins · October 8, 2013 4:00 am

Michael Tomasky makes a novel argument in the Daily Beast on the debt ceiling debate: President Obama's stance isn't hypocritical now because it was hypocritical before when it was made by Sen. Obama. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

Possibly the lamest-ever argument that Obama is not a debt-ceiling hypocrite

Sean Higgins · October 8, 2013 4:00 am

Obamacare created a 2.3 percent excise tax on the manufacture and import of medical devices. This tax doesn't really fall on patients, except in very indirect ways. (Thinkstock)

Ending medical device tax: A win for K Street, a loss for Tea Party

Timothy P. Carney · October 8, 2013 4:00 am

Darrel Issa, R-Calif., in a letter to IRS Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel obtained by the Washington Examiner, outlined a "troubling pattern" involving at least four senior IRS officials that raises concerns that taxpayer privacy protections were breached. (AP Photo)

Rep. Darrell Issa accuses top IRS officials of conducting agency business via private email

Sean Lengell · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

Big Ideas: On libertarians, Kansas’ taxes and inequality

Joseph Lawler · October 4, 2013 4:00 am

The legal action is the latest step NOM has taken after spending months complaining that its private donor list was illegally disclosed to the Huffington Post, as well as Human Rights Campaign, a top advocate for gay rights and gay marriage, whose former president served as a co-chairman of President Obama's reelection campaign. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Marriage group sues IRS over leak of private donor list

Susan Crabtree · October 3, 2013 4:00 am