COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Chairman Dave Camp

The Tax Tracker

  • Economists, Job Creators and Congress Agree – Tax Reform is Critical to Improving Wages and Job Creation

    April 16, 2013 - The momentum for fixing our tax code for families and all employers got another boost as the RATE Coalition, a group of job-creating companies committed to working with Congress to fix today’s broken tax code, stated, “this year is the best opportunity for comprehensive tax reform since 1986.” In an... More

  • Over $1 Trillion in Revenue Increases in Obama Budget

    April 11, 2013 - TOTAL TAX INCREASES AND OTHER REVENUE INCREASES REVENUE RAISED 2014 - 2023 1,083,000,000,000 Click here for more information. ### More

  • Icelandic Elves vs. the U.S. Tax Code

    April 5, 2013 - A Rasmussen poll released this week found that a paltry 9 percent of those surveyed believe the United States has the best tax system in the world. To put this in perspective, a separate poll found that 6 times as many (54 percent) Icelanders believe that elves may exist. Americans are overwhelmingl... More

  • Employers and Experts Continue to Offer Positive Feedback on Small Business Discussion Draft

    April 2, 2013 - ‘“[M]ost companies will find value from the easier accounting’ proposed by Camp. ‘It would surely simplify the hodgepodge of tax codes that deal with partnerships and S Corps,’ he says, adding that ‘a unified system should make it easier for companies like mine to comply with the rules. I think Dave... More

  • It’s No April Fools’ Joke…

    April 1, 2013 - April 1 might be April Fools’ Day, but with the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, American employers and their workers aren’t laughing. A look around the globe makes it clear – while countries like Japan, the United Kingdom and Canada all lowered their corporate tax rates in 2... More

  • Democrats Call for Massive Tax Hikes on Families

    March 20, 2013 - Last week, in a meeting with House Republicans, President Obama again called for revenue neutral corporate tax reform. But that same day, the White House announced its support for the Senate Democrats’ budget proposal, which includes a $1 trillion tax hike. House Democrats, meanwhile, have called fo... More

  • Praise for Small Business Tax Reform Draft

    March 13, 2013 - In a continued push to make the tax code simpler and fairer to strengthen the economy, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) has released a tax reform discussion draft aimed at helping small businesses expand, hire new workers and increase pay and benefits. In response, groups represent... More

  • Small Business Calls for Tax Reform

    March 7, 2013 - A new survey released today by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) sums up what small businesses want from comprehensive tax reform – a code that closes loopholes in order to make it less complex and less costly to comply with. Underscoring just how broken the tax code is, 85 perc... More

  • ObamaCare: Trillion Dollar Tax Hike that Hurts Small Businesses

    March 4, 2013 - Tomorrow, the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight will examine the tax provisions contained in ObamaCare. Estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirm that the Democrats’ health law is a trillion-dollar tax hike that families and employer... More

  • Tax Reform Gets the Green Light

    February 26, 2013 - The push for comprehensive tax reform that makes the tax code simpler and fairer for families, while strengthening the economy so more jobs and higher wages are created, received a significant boost today. Signifying the importance tax reform holds for House Republicans, it was confirmed today that... More