Tax & Budget

Tell Congress to Fix the Rest of the Sequester

Tell Congress to Fix the Rest of the Sequester

Congress prevented airport delays, now it's time to stop the cuts hurting women & their families. 

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Breaking Down The Budgets

Breaking Down The Budgets

Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray have released their budgets for the next ten years.

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Corporate Tax Loopholes

Tax Breaks for Families — or Corporations?

Some of the richest Americans pay a lower tax rate than middle-class families do — and some very profitable corporations manage to pay no federal income tax at all.

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President's FY 2014 Budget

President's FY 2014 Budget

NWLC has analyzed President Obama's 2014 budget's effects on programs and policies important to women and families.

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FY 2014 Budget

Highlights

Reports & Toolkits | The High Price of Tax Loopholes

August 20, 2013

Americans for Tax Fairness and the National Women's Law Center co-authored a report outlining the high price of tax loopholes. The choice is clear: more tax cuts for the rich and big corporations, or more service cuts that hurt average Americans and fewer investments that offer opportunities for a better future.

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Fact Sheet | A Roadmap to the 2013 Federal Budget Debates

May 17, 2013

Here is a look at key provisions of the fiscal cliff deal, the timeline for critical choices that remain before Congress, and the guiding principles that will protect women and their families and promote widely shared prosperity.

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Fact Sheet | What Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes Cost Women and Families

April 4, 2013

Many programs vital to women and their families are being cut.  Yet, at the same time, our nation is spending billions of dollars each year on unfair tax breaks for large corporations and very wealthy individuals.  

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Fact Sheet | The Ryan House Budget FY 2014: Once Again, Gutting Vital Programs for Women and Families, Giving Trillions in Tax Cuts to Millionaires and Corporations

March 20, 2013

The budget for Fiscal Year 2014 introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), like his Fiscal Year 2013 budget, proposes deep funding cuts that would devastate programs especially important to women and their families: Medicaid, Medicare, child care, education, SNAP, and much more.

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Fact Sheet | The FY 2014 Murray Senate Budget: A Fairer Path Forward for Women and Families

March 18, 2013

The FY 2014 budget introduced by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) presents a clear alternative to the plan proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI).

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Fact Sheet | The Fall 2013 Fiscal Fights: A Political Drama with Real Consequences for Women and Families

September 12, 2013

This fact sheet details the important budget decisions Congress will face this fall.

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Fact Sheet | The Rebuild America Act: Expanding Opportunity and Economic Security for Women, Ensuring Millionaires and Corporations Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes

March 29, 2012

This fact sheet explains how Sen. Tom Harkin's Rebuild America Act will benefit women and families while ensuring that millionaires and corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

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Fact Sheet | Ryan Budget FY 13: Gutting Vital Programs for Women and Families, Giving Trillions in Tax Cuts to Millionaires and Corporations

March 27, 2012

The budget for Fiscal Year 2013 introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) proposes devastating cuts to programs especially important to women and their families.  At the same time, it proposes trillions in new tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and large corporations.

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Legal Briefs & Testimony | Comments on Proposed Revenue Procedure Regarding Criteria for Innocent Spouse Equitable Relief Determinations

February 10, 2012

The National Women's Law Center submitted comments supporting revised Internal Revenue Service procedures for determining when innocent spouse relief is granted under Internal Revenue Code section 6015(f).  The new procedures will facilitate the requests of low-income women, particularly those who have been victims of spousal abuse. 

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Legal Briefs & Testimony | Comments on Proposed Health Coverage Affordability Safe Harbor for Employers, IRS Notice 2011-73

December 13, 2011

The National Women's Law Center submitted comments to the Internal Revenue Service in response to a notice proposing a safe harbor to protect employers from liability for penalties under the Affordable Care Act when they ensure that coverage is affordable for their employees based on employees’ W-2 wages.  NWLC recommends modifying the proposed safe harbor to better promote access to affordable coverage for employees and their families.

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Fact Sheet | New Census report supports NWLC’s findings that proposed Social Security cuts would especially hurt elderly women

November 18, 2011

Women are three-quarters of the very elderly (individuals 90 and older) and very elderly women are more economically insecure and more likely to have a disability than very elderly men. These facts show that changing the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) from its current index to  the “chained CPI” will result in significant cuts to Social Security benefits that deepen over the years and dramatically increase economic insecurity among the elderly—especially women.

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