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Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, said Monday that Gerald Parksy, a longtime Republican political figure, will chair the tax commission she and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger formed in late October. The commission, according to the executive order Schwarzenegger signed, will release a report on how to modernize California's tax structure on April 15, 2009. The commission has gotten off to a slow start, however. On October 30, Schwarzenegger said, "Speaker Bass and the Senate President pro Tem and I will name 12 commission members in time for them to begin their work in November." But as of yet no one...

[Page: H9439] GPO's PDF --- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the order of the House of January 4, 2005, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Linder) is recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes. Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, the President's tax commission has completed its work and sent its report to the Treasury Department. When this started 8 or 9 months ago, I said as often as I could that I wish you would not appoint a commission because the only thing that I have seen commissions do in my lifetime is raise taxes. Only on the rich, of...

Daunting tax-reform task By Bruce Bartlett Last week, President Bush finally named the members of a tax reform commission he promised to appoint four months ago. But he has given the panel almost no time to do its work and expects a final report no later than July 31. It's hard to see what it can hope to accomplish in so short a time. In his Sept. 2 statement, Mr. Bush said he wanted the commission to report "as early as possible in 2005." Yet only one member, economist James Poterba of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is really known...

“Yediot Ahronot”: Income Tax to go after drug dealers, fortune-tellers, prostitutes Income Tax Commission: It is inconceivable that dentists pay tax, while drug dealers do not. Globes’ correspondent 25 Feb 03 14:17Hebrew daily “Yediot Ahronot” reports that fortune-tellers, unlicensed healers, black-market money-changers, massage parlors, traffickers in women and illegal gambling den owners will be some of the key targets of the Income Tax Commission investigations branch in 2003. Deputy Income Tax Commissioner Jackie Matza decided that investigator will stress discovering tax evasion by sectors that evade tens or even hundreds of millions of shekels in taxes in the 2003 working...