#Excises

Via Political Calculations blog, The city of Philadelphia's controversial soda tax is providing a lot of material for serious scientists to evaluate the effects of arbitrarily imposing a tax on the distribution of a range of naturally and artificially-sweetened beverages. Since we're near the end

The Senate voted 51-48 along party lines to pass the sweeping $1.5 trillion GOP tax bill a little after midnight Tuesday, leaving only the House to re-vote, likely on Wednesday morning, after it was discovered that several minor provisions in the legislation were in violation of Senate rules -

Update: In what could be a serious problem for Ryan and the rest of the GOP leadership, Democratic leaders in the House have asked their members to vote against the Republican continuing resolution bill as it stands.   .@WhipHoyer says House Democrats are being asked to vote against the

Via Political Calculations blog, The City of Philadelphia's tax collections from its controversial tax on sweetened beverages are continuing to fall well short of the levels that the city's politicians desired. For taxes assessed on sales from January 2017 through preliminary data for October

The Senate tax bill is headed for a potentially unlimited series of decisions on possible amendments - known as “vote-a-rama” - as the full text of the revised bill has just been released. As Bloomberg reports, it’s unclear how long that process might take, though we do note that unlike Obamacare,