Well, it looks like they finally did it. Congressional Republicans agreed yesterday on new ways to raise future taxes. They’ve proven quite expert at cutting today’s taxes and paying for…

…repealed the biggest tax deductions and loopholes and used the new revenue to lower tax rates. The staff started adding it up: end all itemized deductions, tax capital gains and…

…the next and tax rates: growth in real GDP, t to t+1 = f(top marginal tax rate, top marginal tax rate squared, other variables) One recent post on the topic…

…or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person, whether or not such person is the person against whom such tax was assessed. The panel…

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…