Wyden Calls on IRS to Clarify Tax Treatment of Employer-Provided EV Charging
WASHINGTON –Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen requesting the agency issue guidance to make clear that electrical vehicle (EV) charging provided by employers is a de minimis fringe benefit, meaning it should not be included as an employee’s income because it is so small as […]
Wyden Calls for Budget That Helps All Americans Get Ahead
Top Democrat: Budget Must Add Sturdy Rungs to Economic Ladder, Not Slash Holes in Safety Net Bottom Line of ACA Repeal, Cuts to Nursing Homes Care in Medicaid is Health Care Reserved Only for Health and WealthyFinance Ranking Member Says Infrastructure Investment, Resources to Fight and Prevent Fires, Agricultural Research, Middle-Class Tax Cuts, Higher Education […]
Senate Finance Committee Democrats Offer Unified Statement on SGR and CHIP Negotiations
WASHINGTON – Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee today released a joint statement regarding negotiations in the House to permanently replace Medicare’s broken Sustainable Growth Rate formula. Signing the statement were: Ron Wyden of Oregon, Charles Schumer of New York, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Maria Cantwell of Washington, Bill Nelson of Florida, Bob Menendez […]
Wyden Statement on the Republican Budget Plan
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement after the Senate Budget Committee reported the Republican budget resolution: “Budgets are a reflection of our nation’s priorities, not just loose numbers on paper,” Wyden said. “Any serious budget plan must address the most critical economic challenge of our era – helping […]
Wyden Statement Regarding Introduction of SGR Legislation
WASHINGTON – Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the Senate Finance Committee’s ranking member, offered the following statement Thursday on introduction of legislation to repeal and permanently replace the Sustainable Growth Rate and separate negotiations in the House to replace SGR and address other health care needs: “My decision today to not add my name to legislation […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Hearing on the Affordable Care Act at Five Years
My first choice for this morning’s hearing would be to get past the well-worn talking points and begin the effort to find bipartisan ways to improve the Affordable Care Act. That strikes me as the best use of our time. Unfortunately, it looks like it’ll take a rear-guard action to keep from going back to […]
Wyden Praises U.S. Enforcement Action Against Unfair Indonesian Trade Barriers
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the United States’ request to establish a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel to consider Indonesia’s licensing restrictions on imports of a wide range of American agricultural products, including fruits and vegetables and meat. “Strong enforcement of trade agreements is critical to ensuring that other countries […]
Wyden Calls for Tax Reform to Supercharge America’s Global Competitiveness
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered the following statement today at a Finance Committee hearing on building a competitive U.S. international tax system: Nine months ago, the Finance Committee came together in this very room for a hearing on how the broken U.S. tax code hurts our competitiveness around the […]
Wyden Calls for Crackdown on Tax Scam Phone Calls Victimizing Taxpayers
WASHINGTON –Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today examined the growth of increasingly sophisticated tax scams that are costing American taxpayers billions of dollars every tax season. This includes a boom in tax criminals operating overseas to take advantage of Americans through a variety of schemes, such as the recent […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Hearing on Protecting Americans from Tax Schemes and Scams
Since the day the IRS opened its doors, scam artists have been hatching up slick new ways of stealing taxpayer dollars from the Treasury. What’s new is, they’re now stealing Americans’ identities and personally threatening them on an industrial scale, while directly robbing them of their hard-earned money. The fraudsters dream up new tactics and […]