…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

From TaxProf blog: Kleinbard: Tax Fairness and Fairness in Tax Data Reporting Following up on yesterday’s post, WSJ: Taxing the Rich — The Facts: Huffington Post: Tax Fairness and Fairness…

…and use ‘aggressive tax planning’ to avoid taxes in ways that are not within the spirit of the law. This aggressive tax planning is a source of increasing concern for…

…Tax Foundation , which bills itself as “a nonpartisan tax research group based in Washington, D.C” and which I believe can be fairly described as generally advocating lower taxes in…

…decades for eliminating the corporate income tax and doesn’t seem to have changed his stripes. In an op-ed last month in the WSJ (where else) Tax Aversion Syndrome and Our…

…their fair share of taxes. One corporation decided to proclaim bankruptcy as a tax shelter. Luckily for the US, the bankruptcy judge would have none of it, calling the bankrupcy…

…tax cuts for businesses and gain needed relief for families through tax cuts for middle-class households. What Obama offers is, as usual, a mixed bag–too much of the same old…

…idea. I propose we write tax legislation to do exactly that. However, the new tax legislation will eliminate all other provisions of the corporate tax code. This would include things…

…counted when the tax cuts were first enacted. . . . Now, the administration is proposing that the tax cuts for those years also be ignored when the tax cuts…

…methods of analyzing proposed changes in tax policy only in terms of their direct effects on certain affected taxpayers. Instead, “dynamic” analysis looks at how tax changes cause consumers and…