Public Finance

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We seek to advance tax and budget policies that promote both fiscal stability for government and economic opportunity, mobility, and security. 

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Structural dysfunction in Congress, special interests, and increasing political polarization have created significant hurdles to adopting tax and budget systems that achieve these goals.

That’s why we support and share high quality research that helps policymakers craft smart, sustainable, and equitable legislative solutions grounded in evidence and data. This means identifying issue areas ripe for reform, generating the best analysis and insights, and ensuring the work reaches those who can make an impact.

$3T
Combination of tax increases and spending cuts necessary to make permanent the individual tax provisions in the 2017 tax reform Source
1997
Last year when Congress passed federal budget appropriations on time Source
$6.8T
Federal government spending in 2021 Source
$31.3T
Federal government debt subject to limit Source

Stories

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Program Integrity Arnold Ventures Statement on Bipartisan Bill to End Fraud-Riddled Employee Retention Credit Program Integrity AV Recommends Ways to Improve the Congressional Budget Office Federal Tax Policy Assessing the 1974 Budget Act at 50 Program Integrity Time to Modernize Unemployment Insurance Programs
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Program Integrity
Divide and Conquer Improper Payments Op-Ed
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Federal Tax Policy
Kicking Off the 2025 Tax Conversation
Criminal Justice Why Evidence Matters
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Fiscal Sustainability
Five Ways to Prevent Fraud in the Next Emergency Op-Ed

In the News

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Arnold Ventures Encourages Prioritization of Fiscal Responsibility in House GOP Conference Rules
11.14.2024
Arnold Ventures Urges the Senate to Pass the Tax Relief for Working Families and Workers Act
07.31.2024
Arnold Ventures’ Statement on Bipartisan Bill to Improve Unemployment Insurance
07.11.2024
New IRS Data on Fraud-Riddled Employee Retention Credit Underscores Dire Need for Congressional Acti…
06.21.2024
Arnold Ventures Reacts to SCOTUS Ruling in Moore v. U.S.
06.20.2024
Statement from Arnold Ventures’ Andrew Moylan on the Release of the Unemployment Insurance Program I…
02.09.2024
The New Expansion of the Child Tax Credit Won’t Disincentivize Work
The Hill 02.01.2024
Statement from Arnold Ventures’ George Callas on the Passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of…
01.31.2024
A $550 Billion Pandemic-Relief Scam
Wall Street Journal 01.24.2024
Supreme Court Will Hear Case That Could Upend The Current Tax System
Forbes 12.05.2023

Resources

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Ways and Means Republican Tax Teams Submission Arnold Ventures et al Public Finance
Ways and Means TCJA Submission | October 15, 2024
AV SFR Congress and the Congressional Budget Office 9 11 24 Public Finance
AV SFR on Examining Ways to Improve the Congressional Budget Office | Sept. 11, 2024
Assessing the 1974 Budget Act at 50 Public Finance
Assessing the 1974 Budget Act at 50 | Aug. 26, 2024
Public Finance Overview Public Finance
Public Finance Overview
Arnold Ventures SFR Hearing on Reforming Unemployment Insurance to Support American Workers and Businesses Public Finance
AV SFR on Reforming Unemployment Insurance to Support American Workers and Businesses | Jun. 26, 2024
AV SFR Expanding on the Success of the 2017 Tax Relief to Help Hardworking Americans Public Finance
Arnold Ventures’ Statement for the Record on the House Committee on Ways and Means Hearing: ​“Expanding on the Success of the 2017 Tax Relieve to Help Hardworking Americans” | April 25, 2024
AV Credit Program Growth Paper v5 Public Finance
AV Credit Program Growth Paper | Dec. 15, 2023
Moore v U.S. Brief of George A Callas and Mindy Herzfeld as Amici Curiae Public Finance
Moore v U.S. Amicus Brief Callas and Herzfeld | Oct. 24, 2023
AV Public Finance Overview One Pager v3 1 Public Finance
Arnold Ventures Public Finance Overview
Risk-taking by Public Pension Funds

Meet the Team

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George Callas

Executive Vice President of Public Finance
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Eva Conway

Director of Public Finance
Headshot of Douglas Criscitello

Douglas Criscitello

Program Integrity Fellow
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Andrew Moylan

Vice President of Public Finance

Sara Ragsdale

Public Finance Analyst
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Lynn Riesett

Executive Assistant (she/her)
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Anna Tyger

Public Finance Manager
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Quang Vu

Grants Manager (he/him)

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Federal Tax Policy
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Program Integrity
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Fiscal Sustainability

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