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Coalition Urges Treasury Action on Upcoming "Fiscal Cliff" of Tax Payment Deadlines

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Dear Secretary Mnuchin:

As you know, the month of July marks the due date for an enormous number of taxes for families and employers. Millions of individuals will owe significant amounts on their returns, especially those with income from small businesses. Estimated tax payments for the first and second quarter of this year are also due. Finally, a raft of federal excise taxes must be paid in the month of July. 

Taken together, these tax payments are a fiscal cliff endangering our economic recovery. Potentially, over $1 trillion in tax payments will suddenly be transferred from the private economy to the Treasury. This would represent an enormous financial burden at a time when many individuals and businesses are struggling to make ends meet due to the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and the recent civil unrest.

Therefore, we ask that you use your authority under the law to defer these tax payment deadlines into 2021. Doing so would not reduce a penny of tax owed, but would give the economy some much-needed breathing room to recover cash flow, transition to hiring unemployed workers, and rebuild shattered small businesses. 

The case is clear that delaying payment deadlines – including estimated taxes and excise taxes – must be an immediate priority. Your leadership early in the pandemic helped shift the burdens of tax payments to July. We need that leadership again to help the economy move back to full prosperity, by shifting payments further into 2021.

Sincerely,

National Taxpayers Union Foundation

Family Business CoalitionNevada Policy Research Institute
60 Plus AssociationFreedomWorksNiskanen Center
Alaska Policy ForumFrontiers of FreedomOhio Taxpayers Association
American Business Defense CouncilHeartland InstitutePelican Institute for Public Policy
American Legislative Exchange CouncilHispanic Leadership FundProject 21
Americans For Tax ReformIdaho Freedom FoundationR Street Institute
Association for Mature American Citizens ActionInstitute for LibertyRhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity
Cesar Rodney InstituteInstitute for Policy InnovationRio Grande Foundation
California Policy CenterJames Madison InstituteRoughrider Policy Center
Cardinal Institute for West Virginia PolicyJesse Helms CenterSmall Business and Entrepreneurship Council
Center for Freedom and ProsperityLess GovernmentTallahassee Center-Right Coalition
Center for a Free EconomyLibertas InstituteTaxpayers Protection Alliance
Center for Individual FreedomMacIver InstituteTea Party Nation
Citizens Against Government WasteMaine Policy InstituteTexas Public Policy Foundation
Civitas InstituteMarket InstituteTradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Coastal Carolina Taxpayers AssociationMississippi Center for Public PolicyYankee Institute for Public Policy
Consumer Action for a Strong EconomyNational Liberty Federation 
Committee for Government AccountabilityNational Center for Public Policy Research 

 

 

National Taxpayers Union Foundation

60 Plus Association

American Business Defense Council

American Legislative Exchange Council

Americans for Tax Reform

Association for Mature American Citizens Action

Center for Freedom and Prosperity

Center for Individual Freedom

Center for a Free Economy

Citizens Against Government Waste

Family Business Coalition

FreedomWorks

Frontiers of Freedom

Heartland Institute

Hispanic Leadership Fund

Institute for Liberty

Institute for Policy Innovation

Less Government

Market Institute

Niskanen Center

Project 21

R Street Institute

Taxpayers Protection Alliance

Tea Party Nation

Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.