Tax Foundation

• CU Tax Included for Senate Consideration

  By Heather Anderson  |  June 14, 2013

  Senate committee’s option papers termed a wakeup call by industry trades.

• Tax Foundation Advocates Taxing Credit Unions to Reduce Deficit

  By Heather Anderson  |  December 7, 2012

  Report filled with bankers' talking points, ignores bank tax breaks.

• Latest ICBA Email Targets CU Tax Exemption; CU Trades Unimpressed

  By Heather Anderson  |  November 20, 2012

  Community bankers lobby says mistaken entry in bill "reignites the controversy."

• Bankers Play Tax Card in Fight Against MBL

  By Heather Anderson  |  July 25, 2012

  The banking lobby has drawn what it hopes is a powerful sword in its crusade against an increase in the member business lending cap: taxes.

• CU Tax Exemption May Draw Fire From New Budget Panel: Print Preview

  By Claude R. Marx  |  August 4, 2011

  This article will be among the news and features filling the pages of the next print edition of Credit Union Times.

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  Exemption On the Firing Line

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 20, 2011

  Credit unions are on alert about the fate of their tax-exempt status as a result of President Obama’s speech outlining his deficit reduction strategy.

• Obama Deficit Reduction Proposals Could Include Removal of CU Tax Exemption

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 12, 2011

  President Obama's new deficit-reduction package could include killing the credit union tax exemption.

• Deficit Reduction Panel Report Calls for Elimination of CU Tax Exemption

  By Claude R. Marx  |  December 1, 2010

  A report that is likely to be voted on this week by a presidentially appointed commission on deficit reduction recommends eliminating business tax expenditures including the tax exemption for credit unions.

• Exemption on the Table

  November 17, 2010

  A draft proposal of a report by a presidentially appointed deficit reduction panel includes an option that would eliminate many tax exemptions, including the one for credit unions.

• Nixing CU Tax Exemption Among Options in Deficit Panel Draft

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 10, 2010

  A draft proposal of a report by a presidentially appointed deficit reduction panel includes an option that would eliminate many tax exemptions, including the one for credit unions.