The organization known as Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) has calculated that since 2009 President Obama has proposed 442 tax increases. This figure results from a survey of the budgets for the fiscal years 2010 to 2015. In addition to these tax increases there were a further twenty tax increases included as part of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. Of the total tax increases, 93 were put forward as part of the tax measures for the 2015 fiscal year.
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