Letter to Congress urges members to sponsor the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act Today, more than 50 national organizations sent a letter urging members of Congress to co-sponsor the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act, which would overhaul the new international tax system put in place by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to ensure that multinational […]
A new analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness estimates that Charles Koch and David Koch and/or Koch Industries could save between $1 billion and $1.4 billion combined in income taxes each year from the Trump tax law―and that doesn’t even count how much the brothers might save in taxes on offshore profits or how much […]
MEMORANDUM FR: Frank Clemente, Executive Director Americans for Tax Fairness RE: Post-Election Polling Shows the Public Opposes Tax Cuts for Corporations and the Wealthy DT: February 7, 2017 Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are misguided in their efforts to claim a mandate to cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations. […]
Compiled by Americans for Tax Fairness Source for all platform language is here: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php Note: These are noteworthy excerpts of discussions about tax issues from past Democratic platforms. The excerpts are not comprehensive; often there are brief mentions of tax issues throughout a lengthy platform document. 2012 Note: there are many references in the platform […]
October 24, 2012
Campaign Resources
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May 12, 2025
ATF Letter Opposing TCJA 2.0
Dear Chair Smith, Ranking Member Neal, and Members of the House Ways & Means Committee: On behalf of Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and its coalition of 420+ endorsing organizations, we write to strongly oppose House Ways & Means legislative proposals with respect to the reconciliation instructions in H. Con. Res. 14. The Committee’s […]
May 12, 2025
Ways & Means Mark-Up Trump Tax Law 2.0 Analysis
The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee has released its plan for extending expiring provisions of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law along with other tax changes. Analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation of the portion of the plan made available last week found those parts alone would add $5 trillion to the national […]
President Trump has proposed eliminating federal taxes on Social Security benefits, tips, and overtime pay. These proposals would gamble with seniors’ and working people’s futures while failing to deliver a meaningful impact as companies continue artificially hiking prices on consumers. These proposals, combined with others put forth by President Trump, are a reckless and wasteful […]
Top Health Bosses Using Their Firms to Try to Extend Cuts, Save Millions More A single expiring Trump tax-law cut may have saved the 20 highest-paid healthcare CEOs a total of up to $14 million on their personal taxes over the first six years of the law, a new Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) analysis […]
U.S. Billionaires Are Worth $3.6 Trillion More Since Trump Tax Law GOP Wants to Extend This Tax Day, as last-minute filers send their returns to an Internal Revenue Services (IRS) facing the loss of half its workforce–slowing refunds, impairing customer service and enabling tax evasion by the top 1%–the wealthiest Americans are just getting richer. […]