Year-End Bipartisan Tax Package Is Still in Mix: BGOV Tax

Tax Package Compromise or Reconciliation?

Capitol Hill tax staff haven’t ruled out an end-of-year bipartisan tax package to adjust retirement fixes and international tax issues that have gone unaddressed—even as Republican lawmakers race against the clock to pass another partisan legislative package to fund parts of the Department of Homeland Security, I report with my colleague Macon Atkinson.

Tax staff representing both parties’ Senate Finance and Ways and Means committee leadership appeared Thursday at an insurance tax seminar hosted by the Federal Bar Association. There they noted that the House-passed Taiwan tax bill, which has bipartisan support but has ...