Douglas Elmendorf

• Post-Election Estate Tax Fix?

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2012

  Tax issues will figure prominently in the goings-on in Washington this presidential election year, with the consensus among tax specialists being that Congress is most likely to address the estate tax when it decides late this year whether to extend the Bush tax cuts.

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  CBO Projects $1.1 Trillion Budget Deficit for 2012 if Laws Don’t Change

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2012

  CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf said that because so many tax and spending changes to are slated to take effect, CBO has also prepared projections under an "alternative fiscal scenario."

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  Estate Tax Limbo Likely to End This Year

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2012

  The consensus among tax specialists is that Congress is most likely to address the estate tax when it decides late this year whether to extend the Bush tax cuts.

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  CBO Challenges Republicans on Tax Increases

  By William H. Byrnes, Esq., Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M.  |  October 4, 2011

  New analysis by the CBO casts doubt on whether Congress’ bold deficit reduction agenda can succeed without Rebublican concessions.

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  CBO Chief Warns Deficit Committee: Tax Policy on Road to Ruin

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  September 13, 2011

  CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the congressional super committee on deficit reduction, saying the economy will not be able to sustain its current level of spending with the tax cuts now in place as the population ages and health-care costs grow.

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  CBO: National Debt on Track to Nearly Double GDP in 25 Years

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  June 22, 2011

  The nation is on a course to a “sudden fiscal crisis” if policymakers, like Rep. Paul Ryan and President Barack Obama, fail to take measured steps to halt the growing debt burden, the CBO said Wednesday.

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  House GOP, Democrats Spar Over Cost of Dodd-Frank

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 30, 2011

  Republican and Democratic members of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations sparred Wednesday over the costs of implementing the Dodd-Frank Act.

• Taxes, Elections, Prices and Congress Returns: Advisor Briefing for the Week of September 13, 2010

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  September 13, 2010

  What's happening the week of September 13, 2010, that will affect advisors, the markets and the economy.

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  What It Will Cost

  By Ron Pechtimaldjian, AdvisorOne  |  May 1, 2010

  As President Obama signed healthcare reform legislation on March 23, he probably would have wanted the director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, sitting...

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  Healthcare Reform and You

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 1, 2010

  With President Barack Obama's historic health reform legislation, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, H.R. 4872, signed into law March 23, advisors...