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Tax Patents

…tax patent provision in this bill is one such provision. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants started expressing concern about tax strategy patents after the then-Chairman and CEO of…

The 20 Most influential finance blogs

…Economic Analysis 7. Calculated Risk 8. Paul Krugman’s Blog 9. FT Alphaville 10. Ludwig von Mises Institute 11. The Market Trader 12. WSJ Blogs 13. The Epicurean Dealmaker 14.Credit Writedowns…

Tax cuts and deficit commissions

…look at this Tax Policy Center (Urban Institute/Brookings Institution) analysis of the impact of the expiration of the 2001-2003 Tax Cuts. Extending the cuts would result in an average effective…

David Cay Johnston on the Child-Care Credit

…is an American Enterprise Institute economist/scholar in residence, joining Paul Wolfowitz, Lynne Cheney and other prominent names from the Bush right-wing support squad. He has touted the child care tax…

Daylight Savings and GDP

…more than ¥1.2 trillion (around $15 billion) annually, according to the Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute. The Japan Productivity Centre, another research outfit, reckons it could generate 100,000 jobs. Public approval…

New rules for student loan structures

…urge the Department to put additional protections in place by 2011 and to issue a strong gainful employment regulation that will go into effect in 2012. Notice from Ticas-the institute

Coming Boomer pension cuts

…study, by researchers at the Social Security Administration and the Urban Institute, modeled the consequences over the next 22 years of eliminating many defined benefit pensions. The report projected what…

Intelligent trade policy

…EPIs Robert E. Scott (Senior International Economist and Director of International Programs, Economic Policy Institute) post at Huffington Post: “An op-ed published in http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/opinion/24massey.html?_r=1&ref=opinionThe New York Times last week (August…

Tax extenders legislation

…is a mixture of outright buffoonery (the Laffer curve “idea” drawn on a napkin and treated as though it were a scientific hypothesis by the Tax Foundation and Cato Institute