The Joint Committee on Taxation’s ‘blue book’ document recapping the past year’s tax law changes won’t be ready until at least the middle of February, a top committee staffer said Wednesday.
“Don’t expect it by Valentine’s,” Thomas Barthold, the committee’s chief of staff, said at a District of Columbia Bar conference.
Barthold said the commingling of House and Senate versions of the retirement legislation in the year-end omnibus spending bill meant staff had to wait until the legislation was finalized to complete their analysis.
- He also said the committee is hard at work compiling its list of technical fixes to ...