…that strategy. Restraining spending? I thought the rightwing talking points were supposed to blame the deficit on an explosion in government spending as tax cuts allegedly lead to Laffer curve…

…alleges that a U.S. corporation can reduce its taxes by mailing the rights to intellectual property (IP) to a country that imposes no tax or a low rate of tax…

…possible to piece together the specific revenue costs associated with the various Bush tax cuts. Assuming that Congress approves Bush’s request to extend the tax cuts that are currently scheduled…

…when a recession moves families into a lower tax bracket, their after-tax income falls by less than does their pre-tax income (because they move into a lower bracket). Consumption taxes…

…Country-by-country reporting, the brainchild of noted tax reformer Richard Murphy,* is a principle that makes it possible to detect tax avoidance by requiring companies to list their activities in each…

…system, in large part,’ Choi said, ‘people don’t understand how 401(k) taxation works.’ He cited one survey in which only 49 percent knew that making before-tax 401(k) contributions decreases taxable…

…that is ripe for tax abusers to abuse the complicated categories of differently taxed income. But today there is a ray of hope that this tax scam might just not…

This Is Tax Simplification? I happen to support tax simplification that does not increase regressivity of the tax system, and I recognize that there are a few parts of the…

…Congress must reform and restrain the growth of entitlement programs and adopt further pro-growth tax and regulatory policies. The recently enacted corporate-tax-reform plan is a good first step, as it…

…1994 Finland tax on beverage bottles, a 1996 UK landfill tax, a 2007 fishing licesnse in Iceland, and a 1992 NOx tax in Sweden. The latter has led to a…