ASSET Included in JCT/Ways & Means Tax Reform Working Group Report
Washington DC – In estate tax news the Americans Standing for the Simplification of the Estate Tax (ASSET) commends Chairman Dave Camp & the Ways & Means Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation on the release of their Joint Committee on Taxation Tax Reform Working Group Report. The ASSET plan for change in estate tax [...]
Estate Tax News: ASSET Reaches Ways & Means Working Group on Tax Reform
Washington DC – As part of Comprehensive Tax Reform, the Ways & Means Committee has formed Working Groups for various topics on tax reform. Since the estate tax is not part of any single working group, ASSET has been reaching out to the Chair and Vice Chair of several working groups to help make sure [...]
ASSET Applauds Small Business Committee For Hearing on Tax Reform
ASSET offers solution in testimony for small business on estate tax to curb job losses. Washington, DC – April 9, 2013 The U.S. House Small Business Committee is holding a hearing on ideas for simplifying the tax code and the need to address the estate tax and its impact on small businesses on Wednesday, April [...]
Estate Tax News: Scalpel vs. Hatchet: American Job Creators Need Better Tax Tools
Washington DC – by Rob Smith, ASSET, Americans Standing for the Simplification of the Estate Tax At a recent Senate hearing, Finance Chairman Senator Max Baucus made illuminating statements that echo the calls for tax reform in the House of Representatives, while laying out goals for the Senate Finance Committee for 2013. Senator Baucus wrote, [...]
On the Hill: Estate Tax in a Divided Congress…the Possible
Washington DC – Jack Fitzgerald, business owner and founder of Americans Standing for the Simplification of the Estate tax kicked off a legislative education series for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity for the 113thCongress by leading a briefing on Capitol Hill today about the ASSET solution to the estate tax. “Leave it to [...]
DEALING WITH THE ESTATE TAX IN A DIVIDED CONGRESS
Jack Fitzgerald of ASSET to Brief Congressional Staff with the ASSET Solution Washington, DC – February 22, 2013 Jack Fitzgerald, Auto Dealer and Founder of Americans Standing for the Simplification of the Estate Tax (ASSET) will host a briefing, “Killing the Death Tax While Preserving the Estate Tax” on Capitol Hill on Monday, February 25, [...]
Chairman Camp Congratulates New Republicans on Ways & Means Committee
Four new members selected for 113th Congress Friday, November 30, 2012 Washington, DC – Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement today congratulating and welcoming the new Republican Members of the Ways and Means Committee: “The Members joining our Committee will bring valuable experience, expertise and energy to the Committee – [...]
Coalition Leader Encourages Senate Gang of 8 to Adopt “ASSET Plan” on Estate Tax Reform
October 9, 2012 – The bipartisan group of eight Senators known as the “Gang of 8” is meeting this week in Mount Vernon with hopes to create a plan to prevent the federal government from plunging over the so-called fiscal cliff, which includes the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and the severe automatic cuts to [...]
Chairmen Camp and Baucus Announce Joint Hearing on Tax Reform and the Tax Treatment of Capital Gains
Thursday, June 28, 2012 Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, and Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, today announced that the Committees will hold a joint hearing to review the tax treatment of capital gains in the context of comprehensive tax reform. The joint [...]
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Calls for Changes in Dumb Death Tax That Destroys Jobs and Small Businesses
Washington, DC – “Could there be a dumber tax than this where the cost of compliance equals the amount of money that the government collects from this?,” Congressman Roscoe Bartlett asked at a hearing today by the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access of the House Small Business Committee about “Planning for the [...]