…his rivals. “Clearly, this is more double-talk from the McCain campaign,” said Alixe Mattingly, a spokeswoman for Bush. “Pulling out of this debate at the last minute is an indication…

…of lowering the Kochs’ income tax and eventual estate tax obligations, of disassembling the social safety net, of keeping the minimum wage at $7.40 an hour, and of ensuring the…

…relationship between the tax burden (i.e., the share of income going to taxes) and economic growth. As shown also in a recent post, Presidents who cut the tax burden tended…

by Mike Kimel crossposted with Presimetrics blog The Effect of Tax Cuts and Tax Hikes on Economic Expansions Right about now, the U.S. economy appears to be recovering from a…

…taxes are raised in other countries: the proportion of taxes raised through consumption taxes and income taxes, the VAT rates, and the maximum marginal tax rate on income. Sources: The…

…the tax cuts. The following picture compares actual and forecast tax revenues given the Bush tax cuts with what revenues would have been without the tax cuts. The heavy red…

…new “study” on “Tax Complexity 2016: The Increasing Compliance Burdens of the Tax Code“. It repeats the garbage about 6.1 billion hours “complying with the tax code”. Of course, anytime…

…their lifetime tax liability. II Future tax increases will and won’t follow temporary tax cuts. The point of this post (if any) is that advocates of tax cuts switch Ricardo…

…political campaign chests. The pass-through provisions (a 23% “deduction” from income before tax is one version)–along with the ability of businesses but not individuals to deduct state and local taxes–are…

…sales tax at all; these include, Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon. For the states that tax digital products, the tax rate varies from 1% to 7%, depending upon…