by Linda Beale crossposted from Ataxingmatter Why Tax Law Should be Required of All Law Students We tax profs have a tendency to tell our colleagues that tax law should…

…in income taxes paid. This would put the “average” income tax for all income levels at 12.5%. The breakdown: The richest one percent of the population, who make more than…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter tax extenders legislation As most everyone knows, the Bush tax cuts were passed as temporary measures, with a provision sunsetting the cuts at the…

…changed in recent years to be too taxpayer-friendly, such as the reduction of foreign tax credit “baskets” that essentially permits taxpayers to “cross-credit” taxes, thus reducing US taxes too much…

…all slash-and-burn on them vile tax rates starting in 1920, the Federal Reserve did nothing, and this led to a robust recovery, unlike, say, what tax hikes and gubmint meddling…

…taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. Those taxes aren’t a matter of economics, they’re straight politics.” So you would think that a Democratic…

…don’t want to recognize that the US, after all, is a tax haven, with lower effective corporate tax rates than most OECD countries. It isn’t the tax structure that is…

…new tax provision, involving retirement savings accounts, that also benefits the well-to-do. And, to top things off, this new tax provision, while masking the cost of the tax cuts by…

…its effective tax rate by using transfer pricing manipulation to shift U.S. income into tax-advantaged Ireland. The really odd thing about the tax cut jihadists in the U.S. is that…

…countries for which there was data are then divided into three groupings: “Low Tax” countries, with tax rates on capital below 10%; “Medium Tax” countries, with tax rates between 10%…