The official scorekeeper for tax expenditure and revenue estimates is the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). (eyeonhousing.org)
In fact, millions of people stand to see higher tax bills because of the elimination or curtailment of deductions such as one for state and local taxes, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan official scorekeeper for Congress. (fortune.com)
The economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research, who are basically the official scorekeepers of recessions, didn't discover the recession until December, 2008 — a year late, and only a few months before the episode (officially) ended. (oxstones.com)