Author: andrea

Huge corporations waste hundreds of billions of dollars each year further enriching their top executives and wealthy shareholders with stock buybacks, rather than improving worker pay and benefits or investing in their businesses and communities. President Biden and Congressional Democrats took the first step in curbing this behavior while also raising revenue to support working […]



In their first legislative vote of the new Congress, House Republicans will use their majority to repeal IRS funding designed to close tax gap that lets wealthy and corporate tax cheats evade billions  The first legislative vote by the new House Republican majority scheduled for Tuesday, January 3, is to repeal nearly all of the […]

On the Other Hand, Congress Is About to Give More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy Saving for Retirement While Giving Crumbs to Working People  In a victory for tax fairness, Congress has rejected in the newly released omnibus spending package the renewal of three major tax breaks urgently sought by big corporations, which were part […]

As Ways & Means Meets Today to Vote on Disclosure, It’s Clear Americans Have a Right to Know If Trump Is a Tax Dodger or Gained from Official Actions After winning a nearly four-year battle to obtain access to Donald Trump’s tax returns, the House Ways and Means Committee should in its scheduled meeting today […]

Dear Member of Congress: We urge you to oppose problematic retirement savings legislation that purports to help low- and middle-income families prepare for retirement, which is being considered for inclusion in omnibus appropriations legislation. It will primarily subsidize the wealthy and worsen the racial wealth gap. We urge you to shift direction: reform our retirement […]

‘If Democrats…Cave to This Special Interest Demand They Will Be Betraying Working Families’ Private equity billionaires would be among the big winners from a corporate lobbying push in Congress to reap a windfall from a retroactive tax break in the omnibus bill now being crafted. Lobbyists and their many allies in Congress are trying to […]

In Letter to Congress at Start of Lame Duck, Nearly 60 National Groups Oppose Loophole Extensions that Could Cost $600 Billion Reflecting growing public demand for tax fairness, 58 national organizations yesterday sent a letter to Congress urging it to reject the extension of three corporate tax loopholes that could cost up to $600 billion […]

Dear Member of Congress: We urge you to oppose the inclusion of corporate tax breaks in any lame-duck legislative package. At a time when corporations are making record-high profits while paying record-low taxes as a share of the economy, and when corporate price gouging is helping to fuel inflation, corporations should start paying more of […]