Guide to Researching US Tax Policy

Tax Analysts, Tax History Project, http://www.taxhistory.org.

Ellen Terrell, History of the US Income Tax.

• U. S. Department of the Treasury:  http://www.treasury.gov 
  • The Department of Treasury has an Office of Tax Policy.  The Treasury Department  produces General Explanations of the Administration's revenue proposals (known as the Green Books).  Treasury also produces a number of reports relating to tax policy.  The Department of Treasury would also be a good resource for statistical and economic information.

• Congressional Budget Office  http://www.cbo.gov
  • CBO's mandate is to provide the Congress with objective, nonpartisan and timely analyses to aid in economic and budgetary decisions on the wide array of programs covered by the federal budget and the information and estimates required for the Congressional budget process.  One of the topics that the CBO reports on is Taxes.
• Department of Justice Tax Division: http://www.justice.gov/tax/index.html

• American Bar Association Tax Section  http://www.abanet.org/tax/sites.html
• American Tax Policy Institute: http://www.americantaxpolicyinstitute.org/
• Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: http://www.itepnet.org/
• Office of Tax Policy Research: http://www.bus.umich.edu/otpr/
• TaxSites.com provides links to various tax policy web sites.
• Tax Foundation:  http://www.taxfoundation.org/
• Tax Policy Center:  http://www.taxpolicycenter.org