The Tax Foundation says yes: When the federal statutory corporate income tax rate of 35 percent is added to the weighted average of state corporate income taxes, the resulting rate…

…lower. The US collects only about 1.8% of GDP in corporate income taxes, while Ireland collects about 3.7% of GDP in corporate income taxes. This extremely large share of national…

…terribly France and Germany are doing with their high capital tax rates,” the argument goes. “Look at how great the Celtic Tiger (Ireland) is doing with its low taxes on…

…be to impose an income tax surcharge that funds the rebuilding over a given period … Taxes may be bad, but deficits are surely worse. What’s the explanation for why…

…for lower taxes on capital income as he endorses a consumption tax. Is Dr. Greenspan trying to claim incentive effects on apply to taxes on capital income and not on…

…the condition that Luskin pay my payroll taxes and my state and local taxes for the next 20 years. I’m sure he won’t mind since these taxes do not exist….

…two categories of states. Because the data in the Tax Foundation Report reports “[Federal] Expenditures per Dollar of Taxes”, simply averaging the numbers by state is misleading. Here’s an example…

…phasing out income taxes in favor of consumption taxes (see the “Consumption Taxes, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5” in the sidebar). I’ve since wandered a bit, but allconsumptiontaxesallthetime.blogspot.com doesn’t…

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…

…sales tax at the end of the year, nobody does. And they get away with not paying since it would be an onerous burden on states to assess those taxes…