The Office of Tax Policy is an agency of the
United States Department of the Treasury
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headed by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.
The Office assists the
Secretary
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in developing and implementing
tax policies and programs; provides the official estimates of all Government receipts for the President's budget, fiscal policy decisions, and Treasury cash management decisions; establishes policy criteria reflected in regulations and rulings and guides preparation of them with the
Internal Revenue Service to implement and administer the Internal Revenue Code; negotiates tax treaties for the United States and represents the United States in meetings and work of multilateral organizations dealing with tax policy matters; and provides economic and legal policy analysis for domestic and international tax policy decisions.
Sources
Office of Tax Policy website
Tax Policy
Tax policy includes the guidelines developed by a government regarding how taxes are imposed, in what amounts, and on whom. It has both microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects. The macroeconomic aspect concerns the overall quantity of taxes t ...
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