Ask the Expert: What Are Tax Expenditures?
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What are tax expenditures? What makes them different from other forms of government spending? And what can we do to rein them in?
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For more information on tax expenditures, see:
- Tax Expenditures 101
- Cracking the Code
- Slay the Sacred Tax Cow
- Audit the Tax Code: Doing What Works for Tax Expenditures
- Bringing Accountability to Tax Expenditures
- Rescission Decision
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