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I still haven’t laid my hands on the Romney tax return for 2010, although I’ve read about a zillion news stories describing it. After I see it later today, I’ll post it on the Tax History Project website, where we have a comprehensive archive of presidential tax returns, as well as any candidate returns we…

Mitt Romney should take a lesson from dear old dad and release his tax returns. After all, his father George Romney released 12 years worth in 1967 when he ran for president. Here’s a shortened version of my Tax Notes article on the Romney Sr. returns, now running at CNN: CNN: Romney’s tax return – George…

My first piece for Time.com: I love the holidays in Washington. Christmas trees at the Capitol, carols at the National Cathedral–and another partisan catfight over taxes. Last year, Democrats and Republicans rang in the season with a bitter fight over extending the Bush tax cuts. That fracas ended with a less-than-statesmanlike compromise, with everyone agreeing…

The Senate is poised this week for another exercise in strictly symbolic politics.The VOW to Hire Heroes Act — a pair of job creation tax incentives extracted from the ruins of President Obama’s failed stimulus measure — seems likely to get a vote in the next few days. Let’s hope it passes, so we can…