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November 7, 2017
Top Democrats said Monday that the so-called “Paradise Papers,” a leaked cache of millions of documents exposing major world figures’ use of offshore tax havens, are damning enough to derail the GOP’s push for an overhaul of the U.S. tax code. Several top Trump administration figures, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur J. Ross Jr., Chief Economic Adviser Gary Cohn and Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, appear in the data.

November 6, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This evening, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, spoke out against a surprise move by Ways and Means Republicans, who dropped a far-reaching 33-page amendment to a 400-plus page bill that itself only was made public on Thursday.

November 6, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, called the Republican tax bill (H.R. 1) a “job killer” and urged Americans to learn more and speak out against it.

November 6, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, introduced a Motion to Postpone debate of the House Republicans’ tax bill (H.R. 1) for several reasons, including the release yesterday of the “Paradise Papers.”

July 27, 2017
Washington, D.C.— Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, issued the following statement after the Republican “Big Six” released a joint statement on taxes.

April 5, 2016

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April 4, 2016

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Progress on Treasury Action Against Corporate Tax Avoidance


January 8, 2015

JANUARY 8, 2015

We've just posted a brief reminder of the economic voodoo peddled by a certain well known U.S. economist, Arthur Laffer. Now we bring you a second, related example of economic prestidigitation: a devious and increasingly popular wheeze known as "dynamic scoring." It emerged in the United States but has been seeping into the United Kingdom and other countries.


December 9, 2013

December 8, 2013

Examiner.com: Women's, retiree groups ask voters to take sequester remedy action on Dec. 12