Static and Dynamic Analysis of Consumption Taxes This and one more post on Chapter 5 of the Economic Report of the president. The author(s) of this chapter clearly anticipated a…

…in ordinary times, likely support. It just ensures that states can collect sales taxes already due. And the GOP has tried to use sales taxes as an argument for eliminating…

by Linda Beale Religious rights, taxes, and corporatism–whose rights are they? Part I The United States has a tradition of separation of church and state that goes back to the…

The Tax Justice Network has just inaugurated a new blog, Fools’ Gold. It just came out with an excellent piece on taxes and Irish economic success in the “Celtic Tiger”…

…raising taxes. Since the Eurogroup negotiations broke down exactly on the issue of whether Greece should raise taxes or cut spending, the absolutely unsupported assumption that the two must always…

…unit of account is used to pay taxes.  In that view this is the ontological foundation is the declaration by a government that something must be used to pay taxes,…

…unit of account is used to pay taxes.  In that view this is the ontological foundation is the declaration by a government that something must be used to pay taxes,…

…taxes in order to clamp down on the avoidance of taxes by multinational corporations, its efforts looked quixotic. But the OECD persisted, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is now participating…

…a decent coincident proxy for the total jobs market. Almost everybody pays payroll taxes, and it stands to reason if wages and/or jobs growth stagnate, so will the taxes from…

…work and live on Social Security monthly payments in retirement. Another solution to the Social Security short fall by a good person. Wyden Says Trillions in Taxes Dodged by Ultra-Rich…